[dirtboy]

Phone companies have been collecting connection data for YEARS!!!!!

Phone companies are not restricted by the Bill of Rights. Phone companies also do not have the power to arrest people.

[Tarpon]

And phone companies have been turning the third party caller information over to police, credit card companies and others for years. Heck even the Supreme court has recently ruled that dispensing this third party information is OK with them. Pssst, wanna buy the phone records to your phone ... they are for sale on the net.

You think you have a right to privacy when you use the phone companies lines? Where did that come from. Even the dunces amongst us know their every communication is subject to monitoring. And we don't even have to hearken back to the Clinton Echelon system or dig through the fine print of the Clinton era CALAE statutes.

The courts recently ordered ISPs to comply with the CALAE law since they were now making phone like connections.

You need to read more and stay off the loony left web sites.