Also known as wire tapping
Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping monitors or records the traffic, while active wiretapping alters or otherwise affects it.
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電話竊聽（英語：Telephone tapping，美式英語又作wire tapping、wiretapping），是由對話之外的第三方，對電話或網際網路中的交談及資料交換，進行監視、竊聽的行為。電話竊聽違反了秘密通訊自由，被認為是一種侵犯人權的做法。在法律規範下，獲得合法監聽權力的政府單位所進行的竊聽行為，稱為合法監察（Lawful interception）。
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