What (who) is wiretap - definition
THIRD-PARTY MONITORING OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
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![Telephone line control device "Jitka", used in late 1960s by Czechoslovakian [[StB]] to signal line occupancy, and connect a recorder](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IDET2007 Jitka phone tapping device.jpg?width=200 "Telephone line control device \"Jitka\", used in late 1960s by Czechoslovakian [[StB]] to signal line occupancy, and connect a recorder")
![audio plug]] connects to the recording device (computer, tape recorder, etc.).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TelRecAdapter.jpg?width=200 "audio plug]] connects to the recording device (computer, tape recorder, etc.).")
![[[CrimethInc.]] sticker on a telephone warning users of phone tapping by the U.S. government](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/This Phone Is Tapped.jpg?width=200 "[[CrimethInc.]] sticker on a telephone warning users of phone tapping by the U.S. government")
wiretap
also wire-tap
(wiretaps, wiretapping, wiretapped)
If someone wiretaps your telephone, they attach a special device to the line so that they can secretly listen to your conversations. (AM)
The coach said his club had wire-tapped the hotel room of a player during a road trip.
= bug
VERB: V n
•
...tapes of telephone conversations that can have been obtained only by illegal wiretaps.
N-COUNT
• wiretapping
...allegations of wiretapping.
N-UNCOUNT
wiretap
n. using an electronic device to listen in on telephone lines, which is illegal unless allowed by court order based upon a showing by law enforcement of "probable cause" to believe the communications are part of criminal activities. Use of wiretap is also a wrongful act for which the party whose telephones were tapped may sue the party performing the act and/or listening in as an invasion of privacy or for theft of information. A wiretap differs from a "bug," which is a radio device secretly placed in one's premises to listen in on conversations or to tape incoming calls without notice to the caller. The same rules of illegality and tort liability apply to "bugging."
See also: invasion of privacy probable cause
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Wikipedia
Wiretapping
Wiretapping also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping monitors or records the traffic, while active wiretapping alters or otherwise affects it.
Pronunciation examples for wiretap
1. wiretap capable.
Technology Policy War Stories _ Joseph Lorenzo Hall _ Talks at Google
2. You wanted a wiretap.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
3. that are wiretap friendly?
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4. TBL: The wiretap on your line
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5. If they want to wiretap you using
Technology Policy War Stories _ Joseph Lorenzo Hall _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of wiretap
1. Lamberth, at the time head of the secret–wiretap court.
2. Gonzales‘s Wiretap Letter Former Attorney General Alberto R.
3. Wiretap evidence should be made applicable in court, he implies.
4. Several House of Representatives committees began hearings last week on the wiretap tapes.
5. Congress established the FISA Court precisely to be a check on executive power to wiretap.