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To: madison10
Technicality. They still are snooping where it is not their business.

Back in 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a "search" at all for constitutional purposes, and thus requires no warrant, because it uncovers no information that the caller didn't voluntarily disclose to the phone company. Congress put some limits on the use of pen registers by statute in 1986, but it is far, far easier for the government to use a pen register than for it to get a wiretapping warrant.

54 posted on 05/03/2018 6:51:40 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

With the apps that show your number is calling you and such, how does that play with this pen log? With today’s tech, they can go through proxy this and proxy that to make Trump’s private number call Stormy’s private number any time they wish.


63 posted on 05/04/2018 6:28:24 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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