On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:30:31 -0800, Scott en Aztlán
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:41:25 -0500, "Dave C." wrote:

That *is* ridiculous.

Mom pays for the phone, she pays for the computer, she pays for the
electricity; she has the right to monitor the communication taking
place using her property

No, it's not ridiculous at all. The mother can ALLOW the child to use the
phone. If she does, then the child has an expectation of privacy while
using it.

Why does a child have an expectation or privacy but an employee does
not? And forget that crap about how you "signed your rights away" when
you joined the company; I've worked plenty of jobs in my life and
never signed such a document, yet I know that my phone calls and email
can be monitored by my remployer at any time. It's a basic right the
employer has - I don't need to sign anything for it to be in effect.


The next time you call your phone company about your phone bill,
LISTEN to what the voices are telling you for a change... "This call
may be monitored to insure better customer service"... you think they
are making that statement out of the kindness of their heart?


If the mother can't live with those terms, then the child
shouldn't be on the phone at all.

If the child doesn't want to be monitored, she can buy her own phone
service. Pre-paid cell phones are widely available - no credit check
required.

Put another way . . . if you don't trust
your child to use the phone without illegally spying on him/her, then your
child shouldn't be using the phone, period.

I guess you feel the same way about the GPS tracking device I have
installed in the car that my teenaged son drives?


Is there a federal law against GPS tracking?