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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:37:14 GMT
- From: The Jester <ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Radar Detector Prohibitions
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.116.2@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Republicans for Sanity
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- In article <comp-privacy1.114.5@pica.army.mil> StarOwl@uiuc.edu (StarOwl) writes:
- >Not that this is a privacy issue, but I thought that banning radar
- >detectors was technically a violation of federal law. I think
- >there is a federal law on the books, dating back from the '30's,
- >which affirms citizens' rights to receive signals broadcast anywhere
- >in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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- Well then I know of at least one instance where that law was amended
- and this has A LOT to do with privacy. As has been pointed out on
- this group before, making a Cellular telephone call is like talking
- to the other party on a loud speaker. Well fearful of giving the
- general public a viable encryption medium for cellular telephone,
- the congress passed a law making it illegal to listen in to that
- frequency. I'd say I'm constantly amazed by the idiocy of congress,
- but to be honest, nothing much surprises me anymore.
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- The Jester
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