The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone’s microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
Even though this has been going on for over four years there has hardly been a peep ou of the mainstream media! The technique is called a “roving bug,” and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him way back in 2006.
Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.
The surveillance technique came to light in an opinion published this week by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan.
He ruled that the “roving bug” was legal because federal wiretapping law is broad enough to permit eavesdropping even of conversations that take place near a suspect’s cell phone.
Never mind the FBI, or Canada's CSIS for that matter!
Don't ya think that the CIA, DEA NSA all all sorts of mean nasty terrible people know about this and are using it to spy on you and me?
After all; "It's Not Paranoia If They Really Are Out to Get You!"
http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/11/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool-duh-take-the-battery-out-cowards/
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