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About time ... I hope this brings the cost of making outgoing calls from prisons down as well... No reason for calls to cost in excess of $1 a minute these days
by anonu 10y ago
About time ... I hope this brings the cost of making outgoing calls from prisons down as well... No reason for calls to cost in excess of $1 a minute these days...
- afarrell 10y agoI'm curious what the breakdown in nonmonopolistic cost of this would be. I assume the largest component is the cost of surveillance to make sure they aren't taking out a hit on someone?
- r_smart 10y agoI doubt it. We're already all paying for that to be conducted on everyone in the country.
- afarrell 10y agoBy a totally different entity who is going to avoid submitting its data into court records.
- r_smart 10y agoIsn't the FBI also conducting similar kinds of surveillance activities as the NSA, though not as broad in scope?
- afarrell 10y agoHere is an introduction to the 4th amendment law surrounding wiretapping, drawn by a New York defense attorney: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1704 http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1704 Note that it assumes that an investigation is being conducted for the purpose of submitting evidence to a court.
- r_smart 10y agoSorry, I seem to have misunderstood a crucial part of what you were saying, which is: using the data as evidence in court. I also dug around to see if the FBI has any surveillance apparatus like what the NSA is doing and didn't come up with anything credible in the few minutes I looked. They appear capable, but, as of yet, have not started that anyone knows of.
- jessaustin 10y agoDon't assume there's anything reasonable about a monopolistic price.
- ryanlol 10y agoI'm pretty sure that in most cases calls are only recorded and not actively listened to unless there's an investigation. Enabling recording shouldn't take more than flipping a switch on a sip server and storage costs will be less than $1000 per decade.
- jordanlev 10y agoUnfortunately, probably not: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/fcc-official-most-americans-dont-care-about-prison-phone-exploitation http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/fcc-official-most-ame...