Big Brother is watching & listening....

[xoxoxoBruce]

Big Brother is not only watching, he's listening on your cell phone. No, not only your calls, your conversations with the people around you....on your phone.
What? No way, I turn my phone off. Wrong, ring tone breath....

ABC News; Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.

A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a "roving bug." Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.

"The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them," James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. "Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet," he added.

According to the recent court ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, "The device functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be."

The court ruling denied motions by 10 defendants to suppress the conversations obtained by "roving bugs" on the phones of John Ardito, a high-ranking member of the family, and Peter Peluso, an attorney and close associate of Ardito, who later cooperated with the government. The "roving bugs" were approved by a judge after the more conventional bugs planted at specified locations were discovered by members of the crime family, who then started to conduct their business dealings in several additional locations, including more restaurants, cars, a doctor's office and public streets.

"The courts have given law enforcement a blank check for surveillance," Richard Rehbock, attorney for defendant John Ardito, told ABC News.

So you see, 1984 is here, now, and in your face. Keep in mind, as these things come to light, the government doesn't let us in on this stuff unless they absolutely have to. You can be assured they have other tricks you don't know about, yet.

I listened to a guy that lives in Philly, today. He was expounding loudly, how Philly should have red light cameras at every intersection and monitored video cameras on every block.
He actually welcomes the Civil Servant Overlords. Good grief.