, 2006-05-15
From the U.S. Fourth Amendment, the Stored Communications Act and U.S. wiretap laws to the Pen-register statute, Mark Rasch looks at legal protections available to the telecommunication companies and individual Americans in the wake of the NSA's massive spying program.
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Another excellent column. Two thoughts:
1. International rights.
I am curious how this impacts calls made to foreign countries. While phone calls recorded in Delaware requires both parties to permit the recording, other states only require one party to know a call is being recorded.
In this case, calls were not actually recorded (as far as we know), only the meta information was collected (numbers, dates, durations). But if a call came from or went to a foreign country, is there any change in the handling of meta information? Is the USA a 1-party-concent country? Or do both countries need to concent? What about other countries (France comes to mind, as do Germany and China). Is there any international law about this?
2. Email?
I have heard rumors that AT&T also disclosed emails as well as phone information.
(Sample source: http://www.miami.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/145
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