when the government taps into your phone line?

Question

is it a privacy issue or freedom of information

Answer 1

Tap away !. Like I have anything to hide. If you want to listen to me and my wife or my parents when they call. Who cares!.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I feel that the only time the government would ever tap into your phone line is if you were doing something illegal. My take on that is, good for the Government. I am really tired of people doing illegal things and planning to hurt lots of people or give drugs to children, or harm our environment, blow up buildings, etc. and then they think that THEIR RIGHTS were violated when they get caught by the government listening in on their phone conversations. I have NEVER been concerned about the government listening to my conversations because I obey the laws. They can listen all they want because I don't do illegal things. If you are concerned about the Government listening to your phone conversations then chances are you are doing something wrong, or illegal. Clean up your act and you won't have to worry about that. Do you know that 9-11 would NOT have happened if some liberal stupid Judge would have given the government permission to look into a person that was living in Minnesota, and they were NOT a citizan of the U.S. But this stupid Judge would not let the FBI check this guys computer, because the judge thought that it was taking away the guys privacy issue. This guy had NO RIGHTS, he was NOT a Citizan of the U.S. but because the judge refused our government to look into this guys computer, we ended up being attacked, and they hit the twin towers, the pentagon, and they were in route to the White House, but because some brave smart people (much smarter than the judge) on the air plane tried to stop the attack they ended up in a field in Phildelphia dead. If they want to look and listen, good for them., it may stop another evil person from hurting the good citizans of the U.S. IT would have saved thousands of lives if they would have checked the people that were not citizans, And I think that they should always check foreign peoples things, computers, phone conversations, etc,. It keeps us safe from the crazies.

Answer 4

When the government taps into my phone line...I am going to have to think I must have came up in the world and don't know it. My thought there are, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. They aren't tapping into someones phone, just out of boredom. I don't mind them tapping in, if it can save a life or a country.

Answer 5

If they tap your line they have reason to suspect you of some criminal activity and they will require a warrant for that. Now if you have been suspect for a while and you are calling an offshore number to a known terrorist on your cell phone they can with great oversight tap into it.
If you are not a criminal and you suspect your phone is being tapped it's probably some bored phone repair person passing the time.

Answer 6

The government does not tap my phones. I don't associate with criminals.

Generally people who have their phones tapped use the privacy argument to try and defeat it as evidence.

Answer 7

It's a constitutional issue.

The Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches, which includes any wiretapping without a warrant or an exception.

Federal law (18 USC 2511) defines the exceptions. The courts (state, federal or FISA) issue the warrants.

Answer 8

Privacy. Are you stupid or what? Freedom of information???? Wrong department. I noticed the gullible sheep that seem to trust our criminal government. I am not one of you. I trust no one.

Answer 9

Neither. It is likely because there is a legitimate legal reason for doing it.