Invasion of privacy?

[LeDeath Delcon]

I have a resident that places a scripted object on the sim that sends emails to him of those that come and go on the sim, is this a invasion of privacy that may be taken to a legal matter? (he is not the owner of the sim but considered a gaurdian of the place)

[Marigold Devin]

Welcome to Second Life Answers, LeDeath

What you're talking about is often called a visitor tracker, and no they're not deemed to be an invasion of privacy.

Guardians of sims/stores will often make a note of who comes and goes, they can use the information to work out who is a regular visitor, for instance, or know if people visit just the one time. It can be useful to know who visits.

[Cinnamon Lohner]

Legal matter??  As in an RL court of law??  You want to pay money, hire a lawyer and sue someone for monitoring traffic on a sim??

I would recommend an inworld solution first.  Talk to the sim owner.  If the sim owner decides not to take action, move to another sim.

--Cinn

[Lindal Kidd]

Short answer: There is no privacy in SL.  There are no laws, only company policy.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

Some sim owners do this for security to protect their sim and tenants.   If the sim or someone is struck by a griefer they have a list of people that were there and so they can ban the offender and file an abuse report.  Other than that they probably don't even look at the informatoin collected or even care who comes and goes as long as their tenants aren't complaining.