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...subject for Americans, it's common in most other countries. Stealing U.S. industrial secrets was a cottage industry for the former Soviet KGB. Its infamous "Department X" routinely targeted American high-tech secrets. Although the unit was disbanded, the practice continues under the Russian government. The Chinese also regularly eavesdrop on U.S. firms. But the most active spying on U.S. companies lately has not been by agents from old cold-war adversaries. Instead, the spies are employed by allies, including Germany, South Korea and even Canada. Among the most relentless -- and efficient -- have been the Israeli secret services. Last year...
That assumption, unfortunately, is wrong. Although it is illegal in some states for an employer to eavesdrop on private conversations or telephone calls -- even if they take place on a company-owned phone -- there are no clear rules governing electronic mail. In fact, the question of how private E- mail should be has emerged as one of the stickiest legal issues of the electronic age, one that seems to evoke very different responses depending on whose electronic mail system is being used and who is reading the E-mail...
...Finally, a chance to eavesdrop on intimate woman-dog conversations...
Saudi Arabians can eavesdrop on armed-forces radio but not on the military's closed-circuit TV signals. Even so, all tapes and transmissions coming into the country are monitored to avoid offending the sensibilities of the Saudi hosts. That rules out programs containing make-out scenes, women wearing tight or revealing clothing and displays of religious icons. Some soldiers were concerned that the restrictions might cause the censorship of Cher's Video Canteen, a two-hour special of music videos hosted by the actress, whose scanty costumes are her trademark. Programmers for the VH-1 cable network, which sponsored...
...laid out this month in Vanity Fair by reporter Dominick Dunne; in the article she explains that Oziel hypnotized her over the phone into falling in love with him. Two weeks ago she filed a lawsuit charging that Oziel drugged and raped her and later forced her to eavesdrop on his session with the Menendez boys so she could call the police in case they grew violent...