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From: craig@pyuxv.UUCP
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Subject: Eavesdropping revisited [How's that again?]
Message-ID: <154@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 22:12:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 22:12:31 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 08:29:27 EDT
Organization: RB Craig @ Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
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***Speak up, my surveillance device can't hear you clearly***
The Friday, October 25, 1985 Communications Daily reports that the
US Office of Technology Assessment has issued a report holding that
cellular and cordless telephone calls and other forms of new
communication devices are not sufficiently protected under the 1968
wiretap law.  Congress has a measure under consideration that would
strengthen such privacy law requirements extending protection to
cellular and cordless telephones.  Markup is expected, for both the
House and Senate versions of the bill, by early next year.  There is a
possibility of enactment by the end of 1986.

With regard to wiretapping, USA Today says that 35 federal agencies
use, or have plans to use, new electronic surveillance equipment
that is not controlled by the 1968 law.  The article further reports
that domestic US agencies have 288 million files on 114 million people
and that computerized recording devices could improperly monitor
innocent citizens.

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..!ihnp4!pyuxv!craig (RB Craig @ Bell Communications Research)
                                 Piscataway, NJ  08854-1300
If you don't like the world as it is
you may need to learn to like more things.
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..!ihnp4!pyuxv!craig (RB Craig @ Bell Communications Research)
                                 Piscataway, NJ  08854-1300

Technology... wouldn't that cork your bobber?