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I'm a freelance journalist doing an article on cel phone spy culture and would love to talk to some people who have done this with some frequency. I can quote anonymously and am not looking to do a hatchet job. Just wanting to learn more about it. Anyone willing to talk can email me @ Thanks Michael Clarke (Note: discussions about cellular eavesdropping in this newsgroup led to the enactment of the TDDRA - what you say will be used against you!) The latest in the never-ending saga of the Gingrich ethics story is ow also a McDermott ethics story dealing with a cellular phone call. your coverage begins with a report by Kwame Holman, followed by an analysis of the technical aspects of the intercepted phone call, and a discussion with two legislators. (January 14, 1997) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congr...ular_1-14.html - The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 was adopted to address the legal privacy issues that were evolving with the growing use of computers and other new innovations in electronic communications. The ECPA updated legislation passed in 1968 that had been designed to clarify what constitutes invasion of privacy when electronic surveillance is involved. President Reagan signed the Electronics Communication Privacy Act into law on October 21, 1986. The ECPA was designed to expand Title III privacy protection to apply to radio paging devices, electronic mail, cellular telephones, private communication carriers, and computer transmissions. The ECPA was originally endorsed by the ACLU and promoted to protect civil liberties. ----- United States Code TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 119 - WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (16) ''readily accessible to the general public'' means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not - (A) scrambled or encrypted; (B) transmitted using modulation techniques whose essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of such communication; (C) carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission; (D) transmitted over a communication system provided by a common carrier, unless the communication is a tone only paging system communication; or (E) transmitted on frequencies allocated under part 25, subpart D, E, or F of part 74, or part 94 of the Rules of the Federal Communications Commission, unless, in the case of a communication transmitted on a frequency allocated under part 74 that is not exclusively allocated to broadcast auxiliary services, the communication is a two-way voice communication by radio; http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2510.html ------ Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act of 1992 (TDDRA) Public Law: 102-556 (10/28/92) H.R.6191 SPONSOR: Rep Swift (introduced 10/06/92) S.1579 SPONSOR: Sen Inouye (introduced 07/29/91) http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c102query.html [H.R.6191.ENR] SEC. 403. INTERCEPTION OF CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS. -- FCC Rules: PART 15--RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES Sec. 15.121 Scanning receivers and frequency converters used with scanning receivers. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, scanning receivers and frequency converters designed or marketed for use with scanning receivers, shall: (1) Be incapable of operating (tuning), or readily being altered by the user to operate, within the frequency bands allocated to the Cellular Radiotelephone Service in part 22 of this chapter (cellular telephone bands). Scanning receivers capable of ``readily being altered by the user'' include, but are not limited to, those for which the ability to receive transmissions in the cellular telephone bands can be added by clipping the leads of, or installing, a simple component such as a diode, resistor or jumper wire; replacing a plug-in semiconductor chip; or programming a semiconductor chip using special access codes or an external device, such as a personal computer. Scanning receivers, and frequency converters designed for use with scanning receivers, also shall be incapable of converting digital cellular communication transmissions to analog voice audio. (continued) http://tinyurl.com/yvs9g |
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