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Closing the Spycam Sniffer Loophole
Mark Rasch, 2002-04-22

Those cheap wireless video cameras hawked by annoying pop-up ads can be intercepted by anyone with a few hundred dollars and a voyeristic bent. There's no federal law against it, but there should be.

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Here we go again -- trying to plug a security hole with legislation instead of technology 2002-05-04
Mark D. Rasch
I agree that the law doesnt prevent people from doing things, and technology is important to prevent "snooping." However, under a Supreme Court case in 1963, Katz v. United States, the court held that you only have an expection of privacy in some activity if you both objectively think it private, a...

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