Originally Posted by pseudoswede (Post 18837068)

How can the attorney/doctor/creditor know exactly what kind of phone service the client/patient/debtor uses?

Originally Posted by boerne (Post 18841549)

Nothing is 100% secure except maybe this one particular blackberry in DC.

Originally Posted by EZETravel (Post 18877540)

Anyone knows how encrypted phone works?

Originally Posted by BStrauss3 (Post 18876089)

...Back to the OP's question....

Originally Posted by printingray (Post 18842833)

Everyone must be worried about the loss of privacy of telephone records. But surprisingly, many, including some government agencies, don't seem to have any concerns at all.

Originally Posted by lwildernorva (Post 18837099)

There is a serious issue here for both lawyer-client and physician-patient privileges. Although some professionals may scoff at the ethics governing these privileges, some court decisions turn on whether the privilege could be invoked or has been waived by some action that, without thinking, might seem harmless. In 2007, our Supreme Court in Virginia held that a client had no reasonable expectation of privacy when using an employer's computer to generate a document used in seeking advice from his attorney that would later be introduced into evidence at a trial for tortious interference with business relations arising from the client employee's departure from the employer's business to start a competing business and allowed the introduction of the document into evidence over an objection of attorney-client privilege.

A 57-word sentence without a single punctuation mark!

I suspect that the use of Google Voice here doesn't violate a physician-patient privilege, but I think the physician might want to consult an attorney practicing in her state, her state's medical board, or the HR or legal departments at the hospitals where she has privileges to be sure. Unlike a landline telephone service, where users may expect that a subpoena must be issued to monitor the content (rather than the simple occurrence) of a call, a Google Voice user agrees to terms and conditions that allow Google to use any data (potentially including voice data from calls) to tailor advertisements to its users. That distinction might be enough to convince the right court that any privilege was waived, exposing the physician and perhaps any hospital associated with the waived communication to liability in an action by the patient.

Originally Posted by Centurion (Post 18850466)

"They" made some special ones not just Obama but a few other special people.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/f...ting-Obama.htm

Originally Posted by Middle_Seat (Post 18879489)

The medical person in question, after seeing some of these replies, has decided to stick with the landline. Thank you to everyone, conspiracy theorists and otherwise, who replied.