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Online Surveillance: Remembering The Lessons Of The Wiretap Act, Susan Freiwald
Online Surveillance: Remembering The Lessons Of The Wiretap Act, Susan Freiwald
Susan Freiwald
This Article explores those features of electronic surveillance that have made it challenging to regulate effectively. In balancing interests, lawmakers must create a workable law for an exceedingly complex topic, rein in law enforcement agents without crippling them, and draw a line between prohibited and permitted conduct despite society's ambivalence about surveillance. This Article demonstrates that lawmakers met those challenges when they regulated traditional wiretapping, but they have failed to meet them in the online context. It argues that the law should extend the significant restrictions on wiretapping to online surveillance, just as judges did in the case of video …