Word: eavesdrop
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...boom in wireless communications has led to a corresponding boom in wireless snooping. The community of listeners--as people who use scanning equipment to eavesdrop on various wireless devices call themselves--is startlingly large. Bob Grove, publisher of the scanner journal Monitoring Times, puts their number at 10 million to 20 million...
...resigned his post when his life among the prostitutes surfaced. Shortly afterward, so did his literary life. Random House advanced him $2.5 million to write a book about the Clinton White House, but Morris forgot to tell the President about the contract; thus in effect he was paid to eavesdrop on the Oval Office, not unlike Richard Nixon. He was rewarded with a breakfast at the New Yorker magazine, where journalists, ad salespeople and academicians convened to certify his good fortune, popularity, newsworthiness, bankability, celebrity, whatever...
...need to surveil our shadier citizens. Clipper, as proposed, would use a powerful encryption formula to encode communications sent over telephones and computer networks but would require that a "back door" key be built into each chip that would give police--where warranted, of course--a means to eavesdrop...
...CONTINUALLY AMAZED AT THE STUNning similarity between children's antics and government policymakers' actions. A prime example is the new Illinois law that allows employers to eavesdrop on their workers' phone calls [BUSINESS, Jan. 22]. The image this brings to mind is myself at about eight years of age listening on the extension to a phone call between my brother and his girlfriend. I was ashamed of my actions then, as employers should be of theirs now. They should respect their workers' basic human right to privacy as well as their freedom of thought and speech. KERRY J. WILLIS Whitecourt...
...have no desire to become Big Brother," counters Rob Karr of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association. He points out that the law forbids taped conversations from being passed on to third parties and requires employers to gain permission before they eavesdrop. But the Illinois law is unclear whether that means telling employees each time they plan to listen or issuing just a one-time blanket warning. As for bosses who stumble into private conversations, Karr says if a worker is doing personal business on company time, bosses "probably have the right to be listening...