NEW Cellular Phone
Wire Tap Rules
from the FCC

NOTE:  You need to know this.  Think of the
implications concerning your company's
secrets if your employees come under surveillance
because they are engaged in some illegal activity
unknown to you.  If they mix their "other" activity
with their legitimate use of your company cell
phone, your company secrets could be recorded
for others to know.  You need to check your
employees out so that you know that they are not
involved in any activity that will cause law
enforcement to tap your legitimate cell phone use. 


Washington (AP) - New government wiretapping rules
allow police, with a judge's permission, to track
cellular phone users by their location at the beginning
and end of a call.

The rules, announced yesterday by the FCC, are
intended to help law enforcement keep pace with
advances in phone technology.  Privacy groups
complained that the government was effectively turning
cellular phones into tracking devices.

Another rule allows law enforcement agencies to listen
in even on conference calls.

All this is to implement a 1994 law that requires companies
to make digital wiretapping technology available to law
enforcement agencies.