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May 16, 2016
Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Fed Government Surveillance Program In Oakland, CA Area
Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Fed Government Surveillance Program In Oakland, CA Area
Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area has been exposed.
Imagine standing at a bus stop, talking to your friend and having your conversation recorded without you knowing. It happens all the time, and the FBI doesn’t even need a warrant to do it.
Federal agents are planting microphones to secretly record conversations.
Jeff Harp, a KPIX 5 security analyst and former FBI special agent said, “They put microphones under rocks, they put microphones in trees, they plant microphones in equipment. I mean, there’s microphones that are planted in places that people don’t think about, because that’s the intent!”
FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.[…]
Harp says that if you’re going to conduct criminal activity, do it in the privacy of your own home. He says that was the original intention of the Fourth Amendment, but it’s up to the judge to interpret it.
Wild Thing's comment................
With the 'digital age', there is no such thing as privacy anywhere anymore.
Posted by Wild Thing at May 16, 2016 12:45 AM
