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" How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties."
Roger Stone

Meaning of "wiretapping" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF WIRETAPPING

ˈwaɪəˌtæpɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIRETAPPING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wiretapping is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WIRETAPPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Telephone tapping

Telephone tapping is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on the telephone line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping monitors or records the traffic, while active wiretapping alters or otherwise affects it.

Definition of wiretapping in the English dictionary

The definition of wiretapping in the dictionary is the activity of making a connection to a telegraph or telephone wire in order to obtain information secretly.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WIRETAPPING

capping · clapping · flapping · gapping · giftwrapping · happing · kidnaping · kidnapping · lapping · mapping · nonoverlapping · overlapping · rapping · recapping · sapping · scrapping · strapping · tapping · unwrapping · wrapping

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIRETAPPING

wireless telegraph · wireless telegraphy · wireless telephone · wireless telephony · wirelike · wireman · wiremen · wirephoto · wirepuller · wirepulling · wirer · wiretap · wiretapped · wiretapper · wirewalker · wireway · wirework · wireworker · wireworks · wireworm

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIRETAPPING

camping · clipping · dipping · dripping · dropping · flipping · home shopping · hopping · popping · propping · ripping · shipping · shopping · skipping · slipping · stepping · stopping · stripping · swapping · tipping · topping

Synonyms and antonyms of wiretapping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wiretapping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIRETAPPING

Find out the translation of wiretapping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of wiretapping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wiretapping» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

窃听
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

escuchas telefónicas
570 millions of speakers
en

English

wiretapping
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

वायरटैपिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التنصت
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

прослушивание телефонных разговоров
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

escutas telefônicas
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

টেলিফোনে আড়ি পাতা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

écoutes téléphoniques
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Penyadapan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Abhör
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

盗聴
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

도청
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Wiretapping
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghe lén
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தொலைபேசி ஒட்டுக்கேட்டல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वायरटेपिंग
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

telekulak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

intercettazioni
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

podsłuch
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

прослуховування телефонних розмов
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

interceptarea convorbirilor telefonice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποκλοπών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afluister
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avlyssning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

telefonavlytting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wiretapping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIRETAPPING»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wiretapping

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2 QUOTES WITH «WIRETAPPING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wiretapping.
1
Richard Ben-Veniste
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
2
Roger Stone
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIRETAPPING»

Discover the use of wiretapping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wiretapping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Privacy: Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping
This book presents an overview of federal law governing wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. It includes a selective bibliography fully indexed for easy access.
Gina Marie Stevens, Charles Doyle, 2002
2
Surveillance Or Security?: The Risks Posed by New ...
How, in the name of greater security, our current electronic surveillance policies are creating major security risks.
Susan Eva Landau, 2010
3
Privacy: An Overview of Federal Statutes Governing ...
It also appends citations to state law in the area and contains a biblio. of legal commentary as well as the text of the Electronic Commun. Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Foreign Intell. Surveillance Act.
Gina Marie Stevens, 2010
4
Wiretapping
Committee Serial No. 2. Considers legislation to permit admission of information obtained by authorized wiretaps as court evidence in national security investigations, and to prohibit wiretapping unauthorized by Federal officials.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, 1955
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Domestic Wiretapping
Discusses the issue of domestic wiretapping, presenting arguments on either side of the issue's legal and moral validity, including if wiretapping should be legal and how new technologies are affecting wiretapping.
Sylvia Engdahl, 2008
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Domestic Spying and Wiretapping
Provides information about domestic spying and wiretapping, discussing how efforts to protect the nation sometimes conflict with Constitutional rights to privacy and freedom of speech and reviewing the history of intelligence gathering.
Brad Lockwood, 2006
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ABA Journal
Eavesdropping and the Law The New York Constitution contains a provision that prohibits wiretapping except under court supervison. The validity of this section of the state's constitution was clouded by the language of the Supreme Court in ...
8
Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public ...
During this early period of policy debates about wiretapping, Congress was unable to balance privacy and law enforcement interests and craft a policy acceptable to both sides. Following the Supreme Court's ruling in Olmstead, Congress was ...
Priscilla M. Regan, 1995
9
Fundamentals of Information Systems Security
Wiretapping can be active, where the attacker makes modifications to the line. It can also be passive, where an unauthorized user simply listens to the transmission without changing the contents. Passive intrusion can include the copying of ...
David Kim, Michael G. Solomon, 2010
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The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King ...
took until 1905 for the San Francisco Call to get the California legislature to extend its 1862 prohibition against telegraph wiretapping to telephone wiretapping. Telephone wiretapping by the police in criminal investigations also began during ...
Samuel Dash, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIRETAPPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wiretapping is used in the context of the following news items.
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Macedonian opposition leader charged in wiretapping scandal
Skopje (AFP) - Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev and four other people were Friday charged over a wiretapping scandal that has seriously shaken the ... «Yahoo News, May 15»
2
Sprint paying $15.5 million to feds to settle wiretapping fee lawsuit
A 1994 law known as the Communications Assistance in Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) says carriers must have the technology to wiretap their customers to ... «Ars Technica, Apr 15»
3
Macedonians divided over massive wiretapping scandal …
Nearly weekly revelations about wiretapped conversations have spun a web of shock and fascination among ordinary Macedonians, hammering the Balkan ... «Fox News, Mar 15»
4
Macedonia's Massive Illegal Wiretapping Operation Allegedly …
Leaked tapes revealed by Macedonia's opposition seem to suggest that the country's intelligence services have been illegally wiretapping more than 20,000 ... «Global Voices Online, Mar 15»
5
25 Turkish police officers arrested amid Erdoğan wiretapping scandal
Twenty-five police officers have been arrested by Turkish authorities in the latest nationwide swoop to detain suspects alleged to have illegally wiretapped key ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
6
Woman records her own arrest, then charged with wiretapping
Indeed, in this case, it was ruled that an arrest for wiretapping is a violation of both the First and Fourth Amendments. This isn't the first time that police have ... «CNET, May 14»
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County drops wiretapping charge against South Fayette High …
—A wiretapping charge against a South Fayette High School student who recorded two classmates bullying him has been dropped by the Allegheny County ... «WTAE Pittsburgh, Apr 14»
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Antonin Scalia Expects NSA Wiretaps To End Up In Court
(AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the courts will ultimately have to determine the legality of wiretapping by the National Security Agency. «Huffington Post, Sep 13»
9
US Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
While the F.B.I.'s original proposal would have required Internet communications services to each build in a wiretapping capacity, the revised one, which must ... «New York Times, May 13»
10
Secret Wiretapping Cannot Be Challenged Because It's Secret
By delegating broad authority to the executive branch to engage in warrantless wiretapping of Americans, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) raises ... «The American Prospect, Feb 13»
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