[Hugh R]

The govt says you have no expectation of privacy on a cell phone, but you do on a land line. Why is that? Because anyone with a scanner can listen in on the cell? I don't "expect" someone to be listening on my cell, regardless of whether they can do it or not. The gov't says this because its new technology making land lines obsolete and they don't want to invent new law to access a cell call. They want to just say, you have no expectation of privacy, and then tape your cell call and use it against you. Same with email. I don't "expect" anyone to hack it. How about the gov't or anyone else hacking across my fire wall and getting into my computer. Didn't that happen to some Orange County (CA) judge a year or two ago when the hacker turned over kiddie porn to the police and the D.A. used hacked evidence to prosecute the Judge. Regardless of the content of the porn, should the gov't be able to use illegially accessed evidence from a persons computer? Brother, I tell you George Orwell's 1984 has come and gone.