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From: parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
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Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls ... (mobile phone scanning == wiretapping?)
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 09:53:30 EDT
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>      Interception of common carrier telephone facilities, wire, coax,
> microwave, satellite, whatever; I am assured by a prominent Washington
> attorney, is technically wiretapping.
> 
> David Anthony

Mobile telephone services are common carrier. 

Does the Washington attorney consider listening to these calls on a scanner,
as thousands of folks do, to be "wiretapping"?
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