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   Did God make

   

   dorpus, Dec 21st, 2004 @ 10:40pm

   
   

   Didn't God make telephones so you can listen in on family phone calls?
   
   Did God make white people, so they come out of airplanes on tropical islands?
   
   Did God make the internet, so women who love me come from the sky in airplanes?
   
   Did God make necks, so they can be broken?
   
   Inquiring minds want to know.

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   Police asked the mom to wiretap daughter!

   

   D.R., Dec 21st, 2004 @ 10:51pm

   
   

   In the Washington cour case, the police asked the mother to listen in.
   
   There's a huge difference between "should it be unlawful for a parent to eavesdrop on their minor child's telephone or cell conversation" to "should what a parent hears while wiretapping their child be allowed to be entered into evidence in court".
   
   See http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2004/12/11/editorial/editorial/daily01.txt for details.

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   Trust

   

   Tim, Dec 22nd, 2004 @ 5:25am

   
   

   When you have the trusting relationship, that's when you get the mobile to go off and do your own thing, because I expect you to call back in to "base" and natter about life anyway. Until then, you don't conspire to blow up the planet and I won't need to listen in ;)

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   lots of people in violation

   

   TDavid, Dec 22nd, 2004 @ 6:56am

   
   

   Man, just go out in public and it's impossible not to eavesdrop on a cell phone conversation. Too many people talk wayyyy too loud on them in public.

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   Trust But Verify

   

   Steve Mueller, Dec 22nd, 2004 @ 7:17am

   
   

   Of course, some might point out that talking to your kids and trying to build a trusting relationship (not always easy, of course) might be a better way to keep them out of trouble than spying on them.

   Wasn't it Mikhail Gorbachev who said, "Trust, but verify"? You can trust your child, but is verifying that trust necessarily wrong?

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   No Subject Given

   

   straight talk, Dec 22nd, 2004 @ 8:30am

   
   

   Yeah, trust your kids, until they get arrested for drug possession or breaking into a store or vandalizing the school. Then blame television and the internet and rap music for your bad parenting. If you trust your kids, you are an idiot. Kids will push whatever boundaries you set for them. If you don't set any, don't be surprised when they end up on the five o'clock news in handcuffs.

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   Re: Police asked the mom to wiretap daughter!

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 22nd, 2004 @ 10:40am

   
   

   Agreed, but if you read the courts decision, the polices' action had nothing to do with it.

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   No Subject Given

   

   Ervin, Dec 23rd, 2004 @ 12:59am

   
   

   Connecticut law has an ALL party consent requirement. The federal law and some states have only one-party consent.
   
   http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/CIP/surveillance.htm

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   What are you thinking?

   

   Bubba, Dec 23rd, 2004 @ 7:25am

   
   

   Trust? Are you kidding. Mix teenagers, internet, cable, beer, sex, phones, and music together and see what your trusting son or daughter is capable of!!! It's my house, my computer, my TV, my phone, my stereo and, by law, my responsibility to raise my kids. Yeah, I'm going to listen if needed.

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    Re: What are you thinking?

    

    Anonymous Coward, Dec 26th, 2004 @ 10:26pm

    
    

    You live in a red state, don't you Bubba?

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    truth

    

    Kieyona, Nov 6th, 2005 @ 8:19pm

    
    

    i am a 15 year ol student and i think that the young girls rights was violated when her mother listened on her convo's. This clearly stated that her mother didn't trust her daughter. i would have been devastated if that would have happened to me. i would be scared to geton the phone woth guys or muh girl-friends and talk personal with them without thinking that my mom was on the phone. I wanna know if her mother will sent to jail for listening or fined any kind of fee. If you kow then answer please write back thank-Kieyonna Baltimore,Md

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    i dont understand

    

    lil b, Jul 5th, 2006 @ 10:56am

    
    

    ok i am a teen and just recently i had my friends stay the night with me and we were talking gurl issues and the whole guy thing ya know and 10 minutes into our conversation my father walks in and tell me to turn my head so i did and he put the phone on my ear and told me to say hello just as i did i heard my voice but it wasnt coming from that phone a month ago my dad gave me my own phone for my room but come to find out it wasnt bcause he wanted to be cool or anything he wanted to listen to my phone calls and my conversations in my room now if this was my mom i wouln't care but this is my dad the one who doesnt want me to date till i get married ok but my friend who was over was teling me personal thing and i read that was illegal unless the other party agrees to have them selfs recorded
    and now my dad wants the guys we were talkin about to come over and listin and also he wants to share the tape with my family
    
    i dont understand
    
    
    and i need advice
    
    please e-mail me

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