Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David Tamkin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Supreme Court Rules Cordless Calls Not Private Message-ID: <2852@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Jan 90 23:03:14 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 25, message 2 of 10 Has anyone yet looked into the situation of a person who picks up a wired phone to place a call, but the callee answers on a cordless phone? Has anyone yet looked into the situation of someone who picks up a wired phone to answer a call that, it turns out, is being placed from a cordless phone? If the person on the wired phone has no rightful expectation of privacy (especially in the second situation, where the person on the wired phone didn't even place the call), how is he or she to know that the call is legally monitorable? Is one to assume that no telephone conversation is private at all? In ancient times recording devices were required to emit periodic beeps to warn the party at the other end that the call was being recorded. Maybe we need something similar for cordless phones. David Tamkin P.O Box 813 Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 | BIX: dattier dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (708) 518-6769 (312) 693-0591 | GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN No two Chinet users agree about this (or anything else). | CIS: 73720,1570