Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:38:15 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Privacy on Trial: Big Brother is watching you, your honor
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[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Alex Kozinski is a judge on the Ninth U.S. 
Circuit Court of Appeals in California.]

Date:  Mon, 3 Sep 2001 22:24:00 -0700
From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@JSTYRE.COM>
Subject:      Judicial Monitoring - Kozinski Sizzles

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http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html

Privacy on Trial
Big Brother is watching you, your honor.

BY ALEX KOZINSKI
Tuesday, September 4, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT

An open letter to federal judges:

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons maintains the following sign next
to all telephones used by inmates:

"The Bureau of Prisons reserves the authority to monitor
conversations on the telephone. Your use of institutional
telephones constitutes consent to this monitoring. . . ."

I'm planning to put signs like these next to the telephones,
computers, fax machines and other equipment used in my
chambers because, according to a policy that is up for a
vote by the U.S. Judicial Conference, we may soon start
treating the 30,000 employees of the judiciary pretty much
the way we treat prison inmates.

[....]


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