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Such reasoning does not impress cordless users like Tyler, who insists that "a cordless phone is just a high-tech extension phone." Argues one of his lawyers, Randall Wilson: "It is not the intention of those who purchase cordless phones to broadcast to a large number of people. Persons should not be forced to waive their rights in order to participate in a technology-driven society." Many civil libertarians and privacy-law experts agree. Says Harvard University law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "It is preposterous to make our legal rights turn on the physics of how the voice is transmitted...
...many legal observers, the cordless-phone controversy is part of a larger trend that is weakening the right of privacy. "Communication or activity that may be accidentally heard or seen is now increasingly perceived as no longer deserving a reasonable expectation of privacy," warns Stanley Ingber, a Drake University law professor...
Unless the Supreme Court or Congress sees fit to provide stronger protections, anyone using a cordless phone could wind up broadcasting his personal conversations to the world. Consider the consequences next time you call your spouse, your business partner, your stockbroker -- or your lawyer...
...private are your cordless phone calls...
...Dixon, Iowa, man asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his eavesdropping case and extend to cordless units the same legal safeguards protecting standard- wire phones...