Word: eavesdropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...privacy has always been a sensitive issue that weighs a boss's right to know what's going on in the office against an employee's right to be left alone. But in Illinois that delicate balance has been upset by a new state law that permits bosses to eavesdrop on employees' work phones. As originally conceived by telemarketers and retailers, the law was intended solely to enable supervisors to monitor service calls for courtesy and efficiency. But on the way to Republican Governor Jim Edgar for a Dec. 13 signing, the measure was reworked to embrace any listening...
...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...
...lines somewhere. But do these trade-offs of convenience really warrant more reverence than trade-offs of civil liberty? If saving a few hundred lives-including children's lives-wouldn't justify a loss in highway efficiency, does it really justify growth of the government's power to eavesdrop and otherwise intrude on our lives...