Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Wed, 10 Jan 90 12:37:11 EST Reply-To: Mike Nowicki Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Mike Nowicki Subject: Re: Cordless Telephones & Court Ruling X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Jan11.113448est.58621@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <6099@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> doug@loihi.soest.hig.hawaii (Doug Myhre) writes: >The US Supreme Court has just ruled that people do NOT have the normal >constitutional right to privacy (that the get with the regular phone >system) when they use a cordless telephone. When you talk over a cordless >telephone, anyone can monitor it without reprecussions - private individuals >police (w/o a search warrent), gov't, etc... I know cordless phone are probably defined by the court to mean those phones with an antenna that work with a base unit. Cordless, wireless... But aren't cellular phones cordless as well? No wires, transmits over the radiowaves. Same thing except for the mega bucks the cellular industry has to buy politicians and their votes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Michael Nowicki N6LUU Atari Corp,Sunnyvale CA /TT/UNIX/X team | |............................................................................| | char *disclaimer=" Views expressed are my own, not my employer's"; | | char *good_quote=" 'Wait'll they get a load of me!' - The Joker"; | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------