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Telephone Surveillance and Bugging - Is it Legal?Recording conversations or listening in to telephone conversations using wiretap is strictly controlled by laws. Understanding how these laws work protects everyone's privacy and can help prevent needless lawsuits.
Telephone bugging, telephone surveillance, wiretapping: these are just a few names for what is essentially the same thing -- listening into someone else's conversation or recording it for later use. While there are many instances of people whose telephones are illegally tapped, placing a bug on a phone must be authorized by a search warrant or court order. While there are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to listen to someone's telephone...
read more »Computer Surveillance - What Does it Offer?Computer monitoring software can uncover exactly what computer users are doing online. Anyone interested in installing this type of software, though, needs to select the program carefully.
According to a 2001 American Management Association survey, 77.7% of major U.S. companies used computer surveillance to check employee e-mail, Internet use, phone calls, computer use, and files. Some companies even used computer surveillance to videotape workers. The reason is not hard to see: According to IDC Research, 30 to 40% of Internet use during work hours is for personal use. Employers are concerned that they are losing worker productivity, thanks to employees who...
read more »Electronic Surveillance -- How is it affecting your Life?Electronic surveillance in its many forms is everywhere today, potentially creating greater safety for the public and for companies. Knowing how and where to use this type of surveillance can help individuals and companies make the right security decisions.
While plenty of people are aware of the fact that there are video cameras monitoring them inside of stores and banks, few people give much thought to the role that
electronic surveillance plays in everyday life. However, there's no doubt that e-surveillance has proliferated in recent years, with the federal government making moves to monitor more correspondence and personal information exchange...
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