On 9 Dec 96 11:47am, Holger Skurbe wrote to Bruce Clark:
->> It's supposed to be illegal to listen to cellphone frequecies,
->> but legal to listen to the 40-50 MHz area (cordless). And then
->> there are all these people who are bugging their own homes
->> with ultra sensitive baby monitor microphones, broadcasting
->> the sounds from in their house on the 49 MHz area.
 HS> CORRECTION: It is illegal to listen to ANY phone conversations. Anyway
 HS> you cannot, by federal law, divulge ANY intercepted communications that
 HS> are person to person (vs. broadcast radio).
 This is true.
 However, it seems that this is being interpreted to mean that you can not
 use any info that you overhear to harm anybody, or to profit from that
 information.
 There are many pager networks accross the country that page information to
 members about things heard over public service frequencies. Technically,
 this is illegal. However, since no one is being harmed, and no one is
 profiting from the net (any money made is made from the service, not from
 the actual info being shared), so nobody complains (at least, no one
 prosecutes ;-) ).
 In the Glass case, the prosecution attempted to bring up that very point,
 but the judge ignored it.
Bill Funk:  Internet:  skypilot@starlink.com
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