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From: dirish@solitude.math.utah.edu (Dudley Irish)
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Subject: Supreme Court Ruling
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Date: 26 Mar 91 15:57:28 GMT
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In
  Federal Government Information Technology: Electronic Surveillance
  and Civil Liberties (Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, Office of
  Technology Assessment, OTA-CIT-293, October 1985)

there is the following comment on a Supreme Court Ruling (Page 25):

	United States v. Miller, 425 U.S. 435 (1976) -- Court ruled
	that a bank customer's financial record is the property of the
	bank, and thus he or she has no legitimate "expectation of
	privacy" in these records.

I believe that this ruling is mainly concerned with expectation of
privacy as related to search and seizure by the government, but for
those of you who thought that your financial record was your property
it is food for thought.

--
Dudley Irish / dirish@math.utah.edu
Manager Computer Operations
Center for Scientific Computing
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah