Phone tapping?

[slofox]

OK Whizzkids, serious questions here...

Someone close to me thinks their employer may be tapping the phone. There have been a few leaks of confidential info from this place and rumours abound.

The questions:

1.) How would you endeavour to find out IF your phone is tapped?

2.) What are the legal ramifications of phone tapping by an employer?


So let's hear it.

Ta.

[Indiana_Jones]

-Indy

[bogan]

My flatmate tapped his phone a bit hard with his camera, check for cracks on the touchscreen to see if yours has been as well

I know you said serious questions, no mention of serious answer only though

Just ring up somebody and talk about how the employee is shagging the employers wife, that should get a reaction!

[Virago]

Sounds like they need to consult with a psychologist...

[Hitcher]

1. I'd make up a very tasty piece of gossip about a second-level manager that I shared with a complicit accomplice. Then I'd sit back with a stopwatch running until I heard the same item repeated or I was summoned either to that manager's office or to the office of the head of HR.

2. Legal ramifications? If it's a work phone you'll be very surprised to learn what you can't do on it without potential legal ramifications. You shouldn't be using it for personal business, fullstop, because that is theft, just the same as nicking Bic Flicks or photocopier paper.

[slofox]

1. I'd make up a very tasty piece of gossip about a second-level manager that I shared with a complicit accomplice. Then I'd sit back with a stopwatch running until I heard the same item repeated or I was summoned either to that manager's office or to the office of the head of HR.

2. Legal ramifications? If it's a work phone you'll be very surprised to learn what you can't do on it without potential legal ramifications. You shouldn't be using it for personal business, fullstop, because that is theft, just the same as nicking Bic Flicks or photocopier paper.

Not the work phone. The HOME phone.

[steve_t]

Check this page out. Sounds like the employer is legally entitled to monitor many communication modalities

http://www.bellgully.com/resources/resource.00591.asp

Oh, the employer may be tapping the employee's private home phone?? That'd be illegal. I'd be more likely to think about who has been privy to the sensitive information. One person told in confidence can often lead to everybody knowing within several hours

[Indiana_Jones]

Not the work phone. The HOME phone.

Oh dear....

-Indy

[Pussy]

just the same as nicking Bic Flicks or photocopier paper.

Bic CLICS!

[Hitcher]

Not the work phone. The HOME phone.

Same deal. Gossip about a wife's girlfriend or daughter's boyfriend. Death should come swiftly.

Legality? You can only use your phone when and how your significant other determines. Wasn't that in the Fine Print on the bottom of your wedding license? Get over it.

[blackdog]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean no one is following you.

See what you've got to look forward to when dementia starts setting in.

[Hitcher]

Bic CLICS!

Next thing you'll be telling me that they're a piece of writing equipment.

[Motu]

Phone tapping? Yes,I'm guilty of doing that - with the old push button A phone boxes.

[Usarka]

Phone tapping? Yes,I'm guilty of doing that - with the old push button A phone boxes.

Wasn;t that awesome. Tap once to dial a nine. Tap 8 times to dial a 2. Good times.

[Oakie]

Pretty damned sure it is illegal to record a conversation without the parties consent unless trying to prove wrong-doing and asking consent would give the game away.

Contact Telecom or whoever the phone provider is and see if they can offer any assistance.