Terrence Olsen's List: Privacy Law

• • Monitoring of cell phones would fall under the same case law based on the interruption or degradation of cell phone service
• "The problem (the court had) with the surveillance was not based on privacy grounds at all," Sobel said. "It was more interfering with the contractual relationship between the service provider and the customer, to the point that the service was being interrupted. If the surveillance was done in a way that was seamless and undetectable, the court would have no problem with it."
• Under current law, the court said, companies may only be ordered to comply with wiretaps when the order would cause a "minimum of interference." After the system's spy capabilities were activated, "pressing the emergency button and activation of the car's airbags, instead of automatically contacting the company, would simply emit a tone over the already open phone line," the majority said, concluding that a wiretap would create substantial interference.

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• such call-identifying information shall not include any  information that may disclose the physical location of the  subscriber (except to the extent that the location may be  determined from the telephone number)