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10 unusual facts about Telephone tapping


Edward H. Levi

These guidelines required the FBI to show evidence of a crime before using secret police techniques like wiretaps or entering someone's home without warning.

František Mrázek

In February 2009 Czech parliament amended criminal law with explicit ban on publishing any account of police wiretapping, under heavy fine and years of imprisonment.

Glik v. Cunniffe

Glik replied that he was recording the incident, and when the officer determined that this included audio, placed Glik under arrest for violating the Massachusetts wiretapping law.

Mitchell v. Forsyth

In 1970, John N. Mitchell, Attorney General, authorized a warrantless wiretap for the purpose of gathering intelligence regarding the activities of a radical group that had made tentative plans to take actions threatening the Nation's security.

Password strength

Such means include wiretapping, phishing, keystroke logging, social engineering, dumpster diving, shoulder surfing, side-channel attacks, and software vulnerabilities.

Pen register

It overturned Olmstead v. United States (1928) and held that warrantless wiretaps were unconstitutional searches, because there was a reasonable expectation that the communication would be private.

Phantom Below

The Navy does not believe his story and it appears his career is over until he is recruited to command a covert mission to tap an underwater cable lying between North Korea and mainland China.

Smith v. Maryland

It overturned Olmstead v. United States and held that wiretaps were unconstitutional searches, because there was a reasonable expectation that the communication would be private.

Stonewalled

Det. Holder meets with Linden to tell her that he has had a wiretap placed on Bennet Ahmed's phone and that he can get a friend who is a judge to allow any evidence.

Togusa

In Stand Alone Complex, several episodes involving an illegally used wiretap called an Interceptor refer to his background as a detective in the police force and his subsequent recruitment into Section 9.


Anna Diggs Taylor

Her ruling, ACLU v. NSA, held that the domestic wiretapping conducted by the National Security Agency without court approval violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and is unconstitutional.

Damon Keith

In United States v. Sinclair (1971), Keith famously ruled that Nixon's Attorney General John N. Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of illegal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized without first obtaining a search warrant.

Peter Garza

As a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Peter Garza conducted the first court-ordered Internet wiretap in the United States while investigating the Julio Cesar Ardita ("El Griton") hacking case.