If you use a cordless telephone at home in the US, don’t expect to enjoy any legal protection of your privacy: the Supreme Court has allowed to stand a ruling that people have no constitutionally protected right to privacy when at home speaking on a cordless phone, turning away without comment arguments that law enforcement agents acted unlawfully when, without obtaining a court warrant, they monitored an Iowa family’s cordless telephone conversations – the original ruling said that Because there was no justifiable expectation of privacy, the interceptions did not violate the Fourth Amendment, which generally bars warrantless police searches and seizures, and since a landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision police have been barred from secretly listening to conversations over traditional telephones without court warrants.
