Boston cops: citizen recording of abusive busts is "illegal wiretapping" Boing Boing

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Boston cops: citizen recording of abusive busts is “illegal wiretapping”

Boston cops are using the Massachusetts electronic surveillance laws to arrest and prosecute citizens who use their cellular phones to record abusive arrests. Though they haven’t been success…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/14/boston-cops-citizen.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

“One of the officers asked me whether my phone had audio recording capabilities,” Glik, 33, said recently of the incident, which took place in October 2007. Glik acknowledged that it did, and then, he said, “my phone was seized, and I was arrested.”

The charge? Illegal electronic surveillance.