Wiretap Act Does Not Cover Message 'in Storage' For Short Period (was Re: BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 2/27/03)

[John S. Denker]

Will Rodger wrote:

> John says:
>
> > Wireless is a horse of a different color.  IANAL but
> > the last time I looked, there was no federal law
> > against intercepting most wireless signals, but you
> > were (generally) not allowed to disclose the contents
> > to anyone else.
>
>
> No longer, if it ever was. It's a crime, as evidenced by the wireless
> scandal a few years back when some Democrat partisan intercepted
> communications of Republican leadership in Florida, then talked. The
> simple act of interception was illegal.


Next time, before disagreeing with someone:
   a) Please read what he actually wrote, and
   b) Don't quote snippets out of context.

Three sentences later, at the end of the paragraph that
began as quoted above, I explicitly pointed out that

> cellphone transmissions are a more-protected special case. 


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