Mich. Supreme Court said this week that users of cordless telepho...
Mich. Supreme Court said this week that users of cordless telephones have same privacy rights as users of corded phones. Decision reverses lower court rulings that persons using radio- based devices without encryption shouldn’t expect privacy. “Although a person…
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talking on a cordless phone may know that technology makes it possible for others to overhear the conversation, that person can [legally] presume that others will obey the criminal laws” that prohibit eavesdropping on phone calls without a court order, state’s highest court said. Decision came in invasion-of-privacy case in which St. Clair, Mich., man persuaded friend to intercept and record conversations of his ex- girlfriend over her cordless phone.