Posted on 01/23/2009 9:56:41 AM PST by Captain Kirk
To ensure that our systems did not interfere with the spectrum we had to meet FCC standards. The way this is done is to run through all the channels including emergency channels. This was also before cell phones but people had car phones and they’d say the darndest things. Of course it would be wrong to listen too long.
(f) Electronic surveillance means
(1) the acquisition by an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device of the contents of any wire or radio communication sent by or intended to be received by a particular, known United States person who is in the United States, if the contents are acquired by intentionally targeting that United States person, under circumstances in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes;
(2) the acquisition by an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device of the contents of any wire communication to or from a person in the United States, without the consent of any party thereto, if such acquisition occurs in the United States, but does not include the acquisition of those communications of computer trespassers that would be permissible under section 2511 (2)(i) of title 18;
Already started? They have been constant for the last 8 years and no one was held accountable.
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