Word: eavesdrops
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...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...
...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...
...said he would ask Congress for $1.5 billion to crack down on terrorism, outlining a plan that would include hiring 1,000 additional law enforcers, require explosive materials to be chemically "tagged" to make them easier to track down and make it easier for the FBI to trace and eavesdrop on phone calls...
...Your equipment is fine,'' Codex says. ``I'm encrypting your back channel. To the cable company, it looks like noise. As you fig ured out, that number is your personal encryption key. No government or corporation on earth can eavesdrop...
...future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep him out of jail...