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From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:31:38 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?Tag=/&URI=/library/tech/99/08/biztec h/articles/28phone.html New Rules Expand Ability of Police to Monitor Talk on Cell Phones By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON -- Over the objections of civil liberties groups and privacy advocates, the federal government Friday announced new technical standards for cellular phones that will broadly expand the ability of law enforcement agents to monitor conversations and locate criminal suspects. Federal and local agents can already monitor cellular phone calls after obtaining a court warrant. But under the rules announced Friday by the Federal Communications Commission, they will also be able to determine the general location of a cell phone user by identifying which cellular antenna was used by the phone company to transmit the beginning and end of any call under surveillance. The rules will permit agents to identify all callers on a conference call and monitor such conversations even after the target of the inquiry is no longer part of the conversation. And they will enable agents to determine whether suspects are making use of such common cellular phone features as call forwarding and call waiting.
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