> And in the case of the phone company, if you had a little sexy talk with your significant other, no one was the wiser because you had a reasonable expectation your amorous dialogue wasn’t being stored for posterity.
Was that really an expectation? I'm in my early 30s and still remember having a shared party telephone line for several years of my youth and before machine switched networks, operators were also known to listen in on conversations and spread the latest gossip around town.
The focus on privacy seemed to not really happen until digital cell phones started entering the scene, which is very late in the life of the phone networks.
Was that really an expectation? I'm in my early 30s and still remember having a shared party telephone line for several years of my youth and before machine switched networks, operators were also known to listen in on conversations and spread the latest gossip around town.
The focus on privacy seemed to not really happen until digital cell phones started entering the scene, which is very late in the life of the phone networks.