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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Does the ECPA have teeth yet ?
Summary: "interception"
Keywords: ECPA jail sentence felony ham swl
Message-ID: <2164@geac.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 14:09:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2164
Posted: Mon Jan 25 09:09:37 1988
References: <1999@frog.UUCP> <10089@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: Geac
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Cc: david@lsuc

In article <10089@ut-sally.UUCP> turpin@ut-sally.UUCP (Russell Turpin) writes:
>In article <1999@frog.UUCP>, die@frog.UUCP (Dave Emery) writes:
>   It has now been a year that it has been illegal (a felony in many
>> cases) under the provisions of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of
>> 1986 to listen to (intercept) certain radio communications.   
>
>This is a terrible law. If they do not want me to receive them,
>they ought to keep their radio waves out of my back yard. If they

  If memory serves (and it may not, I was a minor when it was last
discussed), "interception" was interpreted in Canada as just that: the
capture of the message and its possible destruction.
  A lawyer will have to comment on the applicability of
"eavesdropping as interception" in the US, and the legality of such
under international agreements re the use of the electromagnetic
spectrum.

 --dave (darn! I wish I was older) c-b
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