Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marvin Sirbu) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Privacy of telephone calling records Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 89 10:33:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 11 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 97, message 3 of 4 Steve Bellovin's comment about the need for better laws concerning the privacy of telephone calling records is well taken. Laws already on the books make your bank records private -- i.e. a bank can't say that you gave up all rights to privacy of your bank records when you asked them to make a payment for you when you wrote a check. It takes a court order to get at your bank records. A similar law should be on the books concerning telephone call records. Just because you gave the phone company a callee's number in order to complete a call doesn't mean they should be able to give out your call records without a warrent. Marvin Sirbu