[off-topic] roving wiretaps
Brian T Hancher
briant at atlantic.net
Fri Aug 2 14:40:15 PDT 1996
>P.S. Do police really need a search warrant to wiretap cellular phones?
It is my understanding that police need a warrant to tap *cellular*
phones, but not *wireless* phones.
One should understand that monitoring cellular traffic is *much* more
difficult than tapping a conventional phone, because as the user
moves around in the service area the phone switches to different
repeaters, often several times during a conversation.
I am curious as to the language of the proposed law, as it is also my
understanding that the government already has the (technical) means to monitor
cellular traffic (but it requires a warrant, just like tapping a
regular phone).
Brian T. Hancher
http://rio.atlantic.net/~briant
briant at ocala.com
briant at atlantic.net
Brian.Hancher at lmi.fdles.state.fl.us
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