Mom charged after putting recording device in daughter's backpack
In late September, Sims says she had enough. She tells 10 On Your Side her 9-year-old daughter was getting bullied at Ocean View Elementary. She says repeated calls and emails to the school went un-returned. [...] Sims says she took actions into her own hands. She wanted to prove that nothing was being done to help her 4th grade daughter. She put a digital recorder into her daughter's backpack in hopes of catching audio from inside the classroom. "If I'm not getting an answer from you what am I left to do?" she asked. The recorder was found. The 9-year-old was moved to a new classroom and about a month later Sims was charged by police.
[...] Sims was charged with felony use of device to intercept oral communication and misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The felony charge could carry five years in prison.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by melikamp on Thursday November 30 2017, @05:46AM
"Wiretapping" laws are a fucking joke since everyone is carrying a spy-phone with a hot mike. Oogle, M$, and SpyOS are tapping everyone within an earshot of every spy phone 24/7 across the US. When will they get charged?
Welcome to the new reality, where everyone (even many people who hate spy phones and would rather not!) is carrying a computer capable of recording and storing a/v. It is utterly ridiculous to expect privacy when you weren't promised one via a binding contract, and from now on these "wiretapping" laws will be used exclusively to oppress, censor, abuse, and gag, until we elect representatives who will trash them. They have no more legitimate applications, because no one except for spy-phone freaks like RMS and yours truly can possibly be in compliance.