Privacy of Cellular Phones
How far will cellular phone companies go as to the monitoring of their clients? Invasion of privacy can be the price to pay for the convenience of a cellular phone. Many people don’t know what they are buying into by purchasing a cellular phone. In 1994, the cellular industry lost $482 million due to the most common forms of cellular phone fraud, “cloning” the electronic serial number (ESN). Privacy advocates and law enforcement officials are battling as to how far phone companies can go when monitoring suspect’s calls. (topic sentence) Although 14.5 percent of the United States population own a cellular phone, few of these consumers are aware that a simple radio scanner can probably broadcast their telephone conversations. According to Bruce Miller, a Seattle based free-lance writer and radio buff, listening in on cellular phone conversations is fairly easy. He says that the only things needed to listen to conversations are a radio scanner, the frequencies of the cor
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Approximate Word count = 661
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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