phone tapping
Covert line monitoring
Phone tapping is the secret monitoring or recording of telephone conversations, typically by law enforcement or intelligence agencies.
The practice requires a court order in most jurisdictions, though illegal tapping also occurs.
The term extends to modern surveillance of mobile phones and internet communications: The investigation relied on months of phone tapping.
Also called wiretapping.
- wire tapCovert audio surveillance
- buggingSecretly recording conversations
- eavesdroppingSecretly listening to others
- listening inSecretly hearing others speak
- warrantFormal authorization document
court order · criminal investigation · listening devices · espionage · consent · encryption · codebreaking · party line · corporate security · surveillance · counterterrorism · national security · intelligence gathering · Fourth Amendment · Big Brother · audio surveillance · spyware · NSA
- investigationinvestigation, detective, evidence, clue, case
- tappingtap dance
- privacy violationsinvasion of privacy, data breach, privacy invasion, privacy breach, eavesdropping
- surveillancesurveillance, CCTV, security camera, surveillance camera, surveillance cameras
- surveillance statesecret police, mass surveillance, informants, CCTV, facial recognition
- wiretappingwiretap, wiretaps, eavesdropping, bugging, bug
phone tappingcommunication privacy
Right to private discourse
confidential communication · secure communication · civil liberties · privacy protection · protected speech
phone tappingend-to-end encryption
Unreadable data between sender and recipient
secure line · signal encryption · secure channel · counter-surveillance · signal jamming