Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Covert 14-Aug-1990 2201" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: No More Listening in on Cordless Phones in California Message-ID: <10925@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 15 Aug 90 02:05:55 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 573, Message 1 of 12 The California Senate has passed and sent to the governor a bill (AB3457) which gives conversations over cordless telephones the same legal protections from eavesdroppers as wire phone conversations. It makes it a misdemeanor, and in some cases a felony, to intercept cordless telephone call without the consent of the parties. The bill also bans manufacture, sale, and possession of any device enabling the user to intercept such communications. It provides for penalties from one year in county jail to three years in state prison with fines of up to $2,500. Don't these people realize that all you need to intercept a cordless phone call is another cordless phone? john