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- From: has8wwa@cabell.vcu.edu (William W. Arnold)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
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- References: <1992Dec14.231010.513@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:45:56 GMT
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- Steve Taylor writes ---
- >Lets see... If I rent a hotel room, does the hotel owner have the right to
- >spy on me? After all, it's his hotel, and I could always go and buy my own
- >house.
- >
- If the contract you sign says he can, he can.
- If the contract you sign says he can't, he can't.
- If the contract says nothing, then:
- If you have "an expectation of privacy" then he can't.
- If you don't have "an expectation of privacy" then he can.
-
- I'd say that you have an expectation of privacy, but at least one of the
- Times I've stayed in a hotel, the fine print on the contract gave him the
- right to (Paraphrase) "do whatever monitoring of the room(s) as is
- necessary to ensure health, safety, and legal conduct while on hotel
- premises." (From a five year old memory..)
-
- As far as I know he didn't have a camera in the room, but he might have.
-
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- | William W. Arnold | Is the universe an accident, |
- | has8wwa@cabell.vcu.edu | a mistake, or did someone |
- | warnold@nomad.urich.edu | do it to us on purpose? |
- | someone.else@someplace.else | --ME-- |
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