-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:12 AM 5/11/97 -0700, David Wagner wrote:
(Note: contents of calls are protected by law, but traffic analysis specifically is allowed, far as I can tell.)
Correct. There is no (federal) constitutionally protected privacy interest in traffic-analysis data about phone calls, because (so the argument goes) that data is voluntarily disclosed to a third party (the phone company). An argument might be available (in state court) based upon a state's constitutional right to privacy/right to be free from unreasonable searches & seizures, if there are any states left whose state constitutions are more protective than the federal constitution. California and Oregon both used to be more protective, but the wise and far-seeing voters in both states changed that via the initiative process. Can't even blame that on the legislators. :( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQEVAgUBM3WZg/37pMWUJFlhAQFUxQf/XjlD9a53YGoFFZRukCfl9sEo+se2pioH QgocIjr+QU/cLMSR99OwUnhGMeNAgAo4teMVwVdIol+I/EA2+WJ2Q1FWlGIW7TtD FTftPbXQQ8vNxTrni0sdi7YcYy2HsXK+Ll+qqyfe4HExvHcjs/FQn8zPtkh005Se Err3uvzfE+IgWGUTOa+wC7C4w7SDYtlx4elvpEwYAPtSvYr8HtHZgY5yYIaoXb15 BTi1gMTIbL3UNcNWwwl6Bvpki6OWlzhT5wzWSmMPoBG5g67BrctSyWTp4kDVc19K UQL5G9vNqelmfBkQ1MPUDgRCs4X57jvOjIz7BcdenQopjzbsaXDA/g== =BFJ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles@netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |