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- From: Scott_Leaf@mindlink.bc.ca (Scott Leaf)
- Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:15:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <20065@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- IT is interesting that Camilla-gate envoked the probable use of Cellular
- phone links that have to remind me of a well known local event but
- internationally insignificant.
-
- There was a Cabinet Minister of the Provincial Government of British
- Columbia, Canada named Bud Smith who was taped having a private conversation
- with firstly a female reporter which implied a tryst while he was married to
- another woman and secondly to an associate in which he made disparaging
- remarks about a recently let go employee assailing his competence. Both
- conversations were private ones made on a cellular phone.
-
- They were taped by a jelous ex-lover and news cameraman of the female
- reporter, then leaked to the Ministers opposition critic one Moe Sihota who
- in turn released them at a press conference for all to hear.
-
- After the usual turn of events and the Minister's eventual resignation one
- strange turn of events took place. The dismissed employee sued Smith for
- liable even though the conversation was a private one not intended for public
- dessemination. This scandal eventually, compounding with some others,
- brought down the government that Mr. Smith belonged to and now Mr. Sihota
- finds himself a Minister of the Crown.
-
- The suit to the best of my knowledge has not been heard but settled out of
- court for undisclosed terms (someone correct me if I am wrong). The question
- here is is there any such thing as privacy anywhere when communicating with
- any sort of electronic transmission device? It is scarey to think that
- politicians or those in the middle of a divorce for example must guard their
- words when speaking to their lawyers on the phone or risk losing their
- child's custody.
-
- The irony is that Mr Sihota, who I thought showed an incredible lack of
- judgement and understanding of fair play, basically got away with murder and
- was rewarded handsomely because the average citizen does not understand the
- importance of privacy and the dangerous precedent that has been set.
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