Eavesdropping by Radio
T is nearly 600 years since eavesdropping was banned by law in Britain; eavesdropping by radio has been illegal since April, but few people knew of it until a recent prosecution. In a shed in a London suburb police found seven radio sets being used to monitor police and fire brigade messages.,The small news agency responsible passed this red-hot information of crimes, accidents, and fires to newsPapers and a firm of fire assessors. The prosecution stated that normal radio sets could not pick up the high frequency used for such messages, but the defence contended that several thousand people were entertained each evening by listening to such messages on shortwave ‘sets. Although it was not stated in court, it has been reported several times that police have heard police car and taxi service messages on their telephones. One man was fined £7 and another £4. When the law was introduced in 1360, eavesdroppers were defined as "such as stand under walls or windows to hear news."
J. W.
GOODWIN
(London).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 19
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173Eavesdropping by Radio New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 19
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