You can exclude EVE mails from your API key.

If only there were other systems that were more secure and actually had to acknowledge such laws rather than in game coms.

I think many have seen www.eveskunk.com by now. An API from a player is (ab)used to show alliance mails on a website for everybody to see. But this is against many national laws, privacy laws to be exact. The problem could correct itself if the sender of the mail has an option to exclude the mail from the API, but there is no such option.

My question to CCP, will the API be changed and the alliance and corp mails removed from the API? Torrent site aren't downloading the content themselfs, but facilitate it.. So is CCP, not sending the mails to website like www.eveskunk.com but CCP does facilitate it.

i might be wrong but do not all in game items belong to ccp.

This is true... but its a good thing that Eve is just a game (you know its just a game right?...right?) and not bound by international laws... I will finish with this appropriate ASCII picture:

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Internet lawyers...

He wants to control what other players can use their personal API keys for.

free intel with no work involved nice. Wish local could work as good.

This is so bullshit its broken IMO. Alliance leaders should be the only ones able to post alliance mails in their API's.

INB4 alliances creating encrypted mails and CODE-BREAKING ACTUALLY BECOMES A SKILL

Internet lawyers...

Well since the OP is hopless I'm going to pack it in and declare this a Zamboni thread.

I am not a layer but a programmer with a Masters degree in Software Engineering. An important topic is "ethics". We, as programmers, are often asked to build something that is against privacy laws. Our duty is to point this out and even refuse to help with breaking the law..

In this case CCP did not, intentionaly, break any laws.. as the API was build with a good intention. But right now, parts of the API, are abused in breaking laws. CCP needs to act on this, maybe even change the API.

In almost every country it is against the law to make private information public, like mails. Nobody will go to court over this, thats for sure. I hope CCP received the message and will act upon and do the "ethical" thing.

You sent those mails to members of your alliance. Those members are free to do what they want with those mails.

I'd say it would be a more slippery slope if EVE as a game encouraged the use of their tools for RL , non game related communication.

If the api is less secure than free email servers maybe an additional caution to that effect and recomendation that personal conversations be taken out of game might be a nice idea ethically.

Oh hell when did Likes start mattering?
Or is it just to you?

I am not a layer but a programmer with a Masters degree in Software Engineering. An important topic is "ethics". We, as programmers, are often asked to build something that is against privacy laws. Our duty is to point this out and even refuse to help with breaking the law..

In this case CCP did not, intentionaly, break any laws.. as the API was build with a good intention. But right now, parts of the API, are abused in breaking laws. CCP needs to act on this, maybe even change the API.

In almost every country it is against the law to make private information public, like mails. Nobody will go to court over this, thats for sure. I hope CCP received the message and will act upon and do the "ethical" thing.