On the recordFebruary 25, 1999
Mr. Chairman, today we are here to protect the privacy of the near 68 million Americans who use wireless telecommunications services and the countless millions who will use those services in the future. Privacy is important to all of us. [...] Off-the-shelf scanners can be easily modified to turn them into electronic stalking devices. With the clip of a wire, a scanner can pick up a cellular conversation in a nearby vicinity. In fact, we actually did that. I demonstrated the soldering of a small wire and within 3 minutes converted a scanner, a legal scanner, into an illegal listening device; and my friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), helped with the demonstration by making a private telephone conversation.
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