David M. Palmer wrote:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/script...=442&invol=735


...


(b) Petitioner in all probability entertained no actual
expectation of privacy in the phone numbers he dialed, and even if he
did, his expectation was not "legitimate."



A decision that was so abhorrent that even Congress decided to protect
people's privacy with the Pen Register Act
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/h...1_18_10_II_20_
206.html

...no person may install or use a pen register or a trap and trace
device without first obtaining a court order under [extremely minimal
requirements for court rubberstamping*] or [FISA]**.

*Basically making a claim that there is a criminal investigation; and
saying who it's against and who's phone is to be monitored.
Requirements that the current program as reported couldn't even meet.

** Which the Bush admin. didn't bother with either, as far as is known.



"Oh, this isn't about justice Mr. Hart.... this is about the law."
The Paper Chase
Be very concerned when those two concepts start to diverge.

Pat