The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) sets out the provisions for access, use, disclosure, interception and privacy protections of electronic communications and is included in Title 18 of the U.S. Code, ECPA prohibits unlawful access and certain disclosures of communication contents.
Prior to the law that was enacted in 1986, the Communications Act permitted listening to private communications but one was prohibited from taking any action with any of the information.
Anyway it appears you may have violated a federal law with the posting below:
73, Don, W6YN
---------- Original Message ---------- From: michael@reynoldsoffice.com To: sbarc sbarc-list@west.net Cc: Subject: [Sbarc-list] Fire Info Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 16:23:53 -0700
Just heard on Air-to-Ground frequency - 170.000 MHz
Fire is moving southeast, and is estimated to reach "Mission Canyon proper" within an hour. A lot of talk about Inspiration Point.
The air-to-ground frequency is being used in conjuction with Operations - 153.905. The raw info is coming from the helicopters, and is then coordinated via the ops frequency. This is a great combination of frequencies to be monitoring.
---Michael, NO6O