Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!craig From: craig@pyuxv.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Eavesdropping revisited [How's that again?] Message-ID: <154@pyuxv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 22:12:31 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxv.154 Posted: Fri Oct 25 22:12:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 08:29:27 EDT Organization: RB Craig @ Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 29 ***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. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ..!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. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ..!ihnp4!pyuxv!craig (RB Craig @ Bell Communications Research) Piscataway, NJ 08854-1300 Technology... wouldn't that cork your bobber?