Re: [TSCM-L] {2072} Re: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Tapping Every Phone Call
in the Country -- Redux]
d..._at_geer.org wrote:
> kondrak writes:
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> | Tapping Every Phone Call in the Country -- Redux
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> | http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000315.html
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> | Greetings. Now it becomes crystal clear why the phone companies
> | have been begging to be indemnified for past participation in
> | illegal wiretapping and subscriber transactional data disclosures --
> | it's obviously been going on massively for years -- as many of us
> | have long suspected.
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> | Today's Washington Post explores Verizon's admission that they've
> | been handing over customer calling data without court orders for
> | ages ( http://tinyurl.com/2brmh2 ).
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> The thing to remember is that, per the law and the courts,
> calling records are the property of the phone company -- they
> are not yours and you have no statutory right to them, at least
> in the U.S. There is no unitary "right to privacy" but rather a
> patois of specific privacy-like rights. For example, by law
> what you watch on cable television is protected, i.e., what you
> watch cannot be be kept as a record. However, what you download
> is not specifically called out as protected and thus what you
> download is not information about you that you control. Rather,
> it is operational data that is the property of the upstream
> provider, and capital-intensive industrial concerns are far,
> far easier for a government to push around than is some small
> nothing.
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> Wishful thinking about this is at once useless and vapid. A
> Constitutional Amendment is perhaps the only genuine answer,
> unless you like the continuing jingoism of this or that judge
> inventing a right that the Congress has never had the moral
> fortitude to enshrine in law.
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> No, I don't like it.
>
> --dan
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