>COURT SAYS NO PRIVACY FOR HOME PHONE CALLS >A split Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that individuals have no >reasonable expectation of privacy in telephone calls made in their own >home. The judge reasoned that with speakerphones, cell phones and the >like, users have no way of knowing who might be listening in on a >conversation and thus no reasonable expectation that the call will be >private. Majority opinion at >http://www.courts.state.pa.us/OpPosting/Supreme/out/J-52-2000-mo.pdf > >Coverage at: >http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZHW8CDOQC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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