Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “If you permit the audio recordings, they'll be a lot more eavesdropping. ... There's going to be a lot of this snooping around by reporters and bloggers. ... Yes, it's a bad thing. There is such a thing as privacy.” ~ Judge Richard Allen Posner (1939-) American jurist, legal theorist and economist. Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law SchoolSource: Sep 13, 2011, during oral arguments in U.S Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, ALCU of Illinois v. Anita Alvarez