Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California has developed an application for mobile phones that allows citizens to record police actions. The recorded video goes directly to an ACLU server that stores the footage even if the phone is destroyed.
2. Wiretapping originated after the invention of the modern telephone, when telegraph wires were literally tapped to intercept communications.
3. It was not until the 1990s that the requirement that police personnel obtain a court order to listen in on private conversations (under most circumstances) came into existence.
4. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a wiretapping regulation, which protects email, pagers, and cell phone calls.
5. The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the ability to tap telephones and track Internet usage in the hunt for terrorists.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True
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