\nIt\u2019s the primal fear of the cellphone age.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re having what you believe is a private conversation at a restaurant or perhaps a hotel suite. Maybe you\u2019re talking about someone back at the office you\u2019d like to get rid of. You go on for hours, maybe longer, confident that since you\u2019re miles away, they\u2019ll never know what you\u2019re plotting.<\/p>\n
But they\u2019re hearing every word you say. Why? You pocket-dialed them\u2026.<\/p>\n
The problem is that \u201coral communications\u201d aren\u2019t necessarily protected from being \u201cintercepted.\u201d If you sit in a crowded restaurant or on the train and talk business, you have displayed no \u201creasonable expectation of privacy\u201d and therefore deserve none. It\u2019s open season on your chit-chat. You should have known. Similarly, if you leave your drapes open at home while you undress, you\u2019ll have a hard time prosecuting the passerby who peered in at you.<\/p>\n
So the question for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was whether Huff showed a reasonable expectation of privacy with his pocket-dial. The answer from the court earlier this week was no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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