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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Senate says warrantless police snooping of pager
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- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:33:37 +0100
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:03:48 -0400
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Senate says warrantless police snooping of pagers OK
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20597.html
Snooping OK on Pager Numbers?
by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 7.Jul.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- Police can easily
"eavesdrop" on pagers if a bill approved
by the US Senate becomes law.
The bill says law enforcement officials
can monitor all messages sent to
targeted pagers without having to
convince a judge that the information can
be found only in that way.
[...]
And the 1979 Supreme Court case that says the police don't need to get
a warrant or court order to monitor what numbers you dial on your
telephone.
http://laws.findlaw.com/US/442/735.html
We therefore conclude that petitioner in all probability entertained
no actual expectation of privacy in the phone numbers he dialed, and
that, even if he did, his expectation was not "legitimate." The
installation and use of a pen register, consequently, was not a
"search," and no warrant was required. The judgment of the Maryland
Court of Appeals is affirmed.
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