W6YN Don Milbury wrote:
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.
Indeed it does, with regard to such communications not readily accessible to the general public.
Anyway it appears you may have violated a federal law with the posting below:
Uh...
No. Not even close.
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 119 > § 2510 Definitions
(16) “readily accessible to the general public” means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not— (A) scrambled or encrypted; (B) transmitted using modulation techniques whose essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of such communication; (C) carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission; (D) transmitted over a communication system provided by a common carrier, unless the communication is a tone only paging system communication; or (E) transmitted on frequencies allocated under part 25, subpart D, E, or F of part 74, or part 94 of the Rules of the Federal Communications Commission, unless, in the case of a communication transmitted on a frequency allocated under part 74 that is not exclusively allocated to broadcast auxiliary services, the communication is a two-way voice communication by radio;
(Part 74 is broadcast auxiliary microwave, part 94 is reserved, was microwave above 3 GHz.)
IANAL, YMMV.
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