Closing the Spycam Sniffer Loophole

Closing the Spycam Sniffer Loophole
Mark Rasch, 2002-04-22

Those cheap wireless video cameras hawked by annoying pop-up ads can be intercepted by anyone with a few hundred dollars and a voyeristic bent. There's no federal law against it, but there should be.

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Closing the Spycam Sniffer Loophole 2002-04-22
Anonymous (2 replies)

For many years, FCC regulations allowed anybody to monitor anything they could receive, provided they did not "act upon" the information gathered. This changed with the first cellphones. The cell companies wanted to say that their systems were "private", but it was relatively common knowledge that scanners could pick up cell conversations. So, rather than implement technological schemes to protect their customers, the cell companies went to Congress and managed to get the monitoring of cell calls made illegal. That way, the cell companies could say "It's illegal to monitor cell conversations, therefore your calls are private." It's one step beyond ignoring the problem hoping it will go away.

I don't see a lot of difference here.

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