Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc
Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc was a widespread method of the mass surveillance of the population by the secret police.[1]
History
In the past, telephone tapping was an open and legal practice in certain countries.Polish secret police did not have resources to monitor all conversations.[3]
In
telegraphs and telex messages, as well as placed microphones in both public and private buildings.[5]
Fiction
The 1991 Polish comedy film Calls Controlled[6] capitalizes on this fact. The title alludes to the pre-recorded message "Rozmowa kontrolowana" ("The call is being monitored") being sounded during phone calls while the martial law in Poland was in force during the 1980s.[citation needed][7][8]
The 2006 film The Lives of Others concerns a Stasi captain who is listening to the conversations of a suspected dissident writer in a bugged apartment with equipment including telephone-tapping.[citation needed][9][10]
See also
- Covert listening device
- Eastern Bloc emigration and defection
- Eastern Bloc information dissemination
- Eastern Bloc politics
- Echelon (signals intelligence)
- Mass surveillance
- Privacy
- Privacy of correspondence
- Phone hacking
- Secure telephone
- Secret police
Telephones portal
References
- JSTOR 10.7722/j.ctt1kzccdr.
- ^ Townshend, Charles. "State and public security: Charles Townshend". The State: Historical and Political Dimensions. Routledge.
- ^ Martial Law in Poland Archived 2007-10-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
- ^ Nomikos, John, and Andrew Liaropoulos. "Truly Reforming or Just Responding to Failures? Lessons Learned from the Modernisation of the Greek National Intelligence Service". Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism.
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- ^ Kruk, Dawid, Dagmara Mętel, and Andrzej Cechnicki. "A paradigm description of virtual reality and its possible applications in psychiatry". Postępy Psychiatrii i Neurologii= Advances in Psychiatry and Neurology.
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- ^ Cooke, Paul, Michael Eskin, and Karen Leeder. The Lives of Others' and Contemporary German Film. De Gruyter.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Harper, Kate (2010). "Surveillance and Redemption in'The Lives of Others'". Screen Education. 59: 111.
