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Pennsylvania supreme court says no privacy rights in phone calls

Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:49:57 -0600
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: Pennsylvania supreme court says no privacy rights in phone calls
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>



>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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