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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:36:04 GMT
- From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Monitoring of Broadcasts
- Message-ID: <telecom12.666.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.661.12@eecs.nwu.edu> voorhis@aecom.yu.edu
- (Adrienne Voorhis) writes:
-
- > What if a reporter, for instance, was listening to a police band
- > radio and heard a newsworthy event? Could he or she legitimately be
- > punished for reporting this information?
-
- Then I wonder if those laws apply in England. For those who are not
- royal watchers the current scandal is the publication of recording of
- intimate phone conversations between Princess Diana and some
- unidentified "friend" in which the subject matter is embarrassing to
- say the least. The tapes were made by someone who was apparently just
- idly scanning the airwaves with his scanner and happened to pick up
- the cell-phone frequencies. The last news report I saw indicated that
- the UK authorities had decided not to take any action against him.
-
-
- Laurence Chiu
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