1. An act of secretly listening to or recording a person's telephone or internet conversations, often as part of a police investigation.
2. A device that is connected to a communications circuit in a concealed fashion in order to enable a wiretap.
tr.v.wire·tapped, wire·tap·ping, wire·taps
1. To listen to or record in secret (a conversation carried on over a telephone line or other communications channel), often as part of a police investigation.
2. To wiretap the conversations on (a telephone line or other communications channel), often as part of a police investigation.
3. To wiretap the conversations of (a person) or the communications devices in (a place).
4. To connect a concealed listening or recording device to (a telephone line).
wiretap - tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?"
Palace, DILG chief back expanded wiretap law !-- -- MANILA, Philippines Malacaaang supports the defense department's call for amendments to the Human Security Act of 2007 or Republic Act 9372, aimed at expanding the government's wiretapping powers in fighting terrorism and other threats to national security.
Soon after Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, proposed censuring the President for his unauthorized wiretap ping program, Democrats began tripping all over themselves as they rushed to back away from the proposal.
The Wiretap Act's requirement of two-person consent is designed to protect the privacy of the person who would unknowingly be recorded, not the individual doing the recording, the Court of Appeals said.
Minister of Security of BiH Dragan Mektic met yesterday with Director of the Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA) Osman Mehmedagic, who assured him there is no reason why this agency would wiretap President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic.
Ning Cai and Haowei Yang first proposed a communication system on a wiretap network(CSWN) and proved a necessary condition of implementing network security by network coding, meaning that source node sends message to destination node without leaking out any useful information to wiretapper [1].
The Italian media is up in arms after Prime Minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi pushed a controversial bill through the Italian senate restricting the use of police wiretaps and punishing outlets that publish leaked wiretap transcripts.
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