{"id":767,"date":"2006-12-05T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T11:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=767"},"modified":"2006-12-05T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T11:35:23","slug":"fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool-cnet-newscom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool-cnet-newscom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/FBI+taps+cell+phone+mic+as+eavesdropping+tool\/2100-1029_3-6140191.html?tag=alert\">FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone&#8217;s microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is called a &#8220;roving bug,&#8221; and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool | CNET News.com For more info click on above link update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone&#8217;s microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations. The technique is called a &#8220;roving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}