Politech: FC: Pennsylvania supreme court says no privacy rights in phone calls

From: Declan McCullagh <declan_at_well.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:49:57 -0600

>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

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