wire tapped
Phone line surveilled
Wire tapped describes a communication line that has been secretly monitored by law enforcement or others.
The tap was originally a physical connection to telephone wires; now it includes digital surveillance of calls, texts, and internet traffic.
His phone was wire tapped for months before the arrest.
Usually written as two words or hyphenated: wire-tapped, wiretapped.
- COINTELPROCovert federal disruption operations
- interceptSeize en route
- bugCrawling creature or defect
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- eavesdroppingSecretly listening to others
monitoring · Watergate scandal · covert operation · legal precedent · whistleblowing · privacy law · paranoia · telephone lines · warrant · Fourth Amendment · FBI surveillance · deep state · snooping · audio surveillance · clandestinity · Nixon · consent · data extraction
wire tappedprivate
Restricted to certain parties
unmonitored · unsurveilled · unwatched · off the grid · untracked
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