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Cellphone privacy.



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Cell phones have numerous privacy issues.

Governments, law enforcement and intelligence services use mobiles to perform surveillance in the UK and the US. They possess technology to remotely activate the microphones in cell phones in order to listen to conversations that take place near to the person who holds the phone.[33][34]
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Ah ha

I can see new phone cases on the market in the near future called Faraday Cage Pouches which would protect the phone from invasion. The disadvantage ; you could not receive calls either.

Until then wrap your phone in tin foil or line your phone case completely with brass screen.

Any closed metal container will work.

A microwave oven is also a Faraday Cage.
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Governments, law enforcement and intelligence services use mobiles to perform surveillance in the UK and the US. They possess technology to remotely activate the microphones in cell phones in order to listen to conversations that take place near to the person who holds the phone.[33][34]


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A previously top secret intelligence-sharing agreement between Britain and America is being released to the public for the first time.

Until a few years ago, even the existence of the agreement was not acknowledged by the two governments.

Signed in 1946, it remains the basis for the sharing of intercepted communications between the countries.

Some of the material shared on the Soviet Union in the 1940s is also being released by the National Archives.

During World War II, Britain and America had co-operated closely on so called "signals intelligence" - intercepted communications.

When the war came to an end, the two sides decided to institutionalise that co-operation and establish it in the new context of the emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union.
'Truly global coverage'

As well as revealing the deal itself, the National Archive files lay bare the negotiations which led to its signing on 6 March 1946, and the follow-up agreements throughout the 1950s that were needed to make it operate in practice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10409113

In the past signals interception was intended to listen in on communist chatter and find communist spies. By agreement the US listened in on the British public while the UK listened in on our citizens. During the Cold War analysts were sought who could speak languages such as Russian or Chinese. During the 90's it appears that the British analysts were more interested in speakers of the Irish Brogue or the southeastern US dialect when the data mining software linked in after a keyword like "bomb" was mentioned in a conversation. That changed again to languages like Arabic, Persian, and Pashto in 2001.
Actually the technology to turn on the microphone or camera remotely would be very simple.

I think I could do it if I wanted to having been involved directly in pioneering digital communications over the air. Ham radio was actually doing this before cell phones were developed. Local hams had a network of towers here in the shoals that tied into a worldwide network of what we called nodes rather than cell towers.

We did similar things and you can rest assured it is a capability.
Bisonboy, aren't you 16 years late on feeling paranoid? The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act dates to 1994. That damm imperialistic Bush (Oh wait, that is pre-Bush! Damm that Republican majority Congress! Oh yeah, they took over in 1995.) Anyway as history shows, it is probably public officials who should worry more about private citizens intercepting their calls from the ether. If you really feel that you need to be listened to by a British intelligence analyst, you probably need to first call your good bud in Peshawar and get in a few good "Allahu Akbar's" first. Then the data mining software might kick in. If the analysts determine that you are probably jacking with them, they might just put in a call to the "New World Order" guys and have you sent to the North Korean FEMA camp in Wyoming shackled between Toyota's on the FEMA car carriers.

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