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| Friday, 24 August 2007 | |
 Gaanan vs. Intermediate Appellate Court, [145 SCRA 112 (1986)]: the use of a telephone extension for the purpose of overhearing a private conversation without authorization did not violate R.A. 4200 because a telephone extension devise was neither among those "device(s) or arrangement(s)" enumerated therein, following the principle that "penal statutes must be construed strictly.” The “Hello Garci” tape is a taped conversation conducted through cellular phones. The wording of the prohibition is relative to tapping “any wire or cable”, and cellular technology does away with both wires and cables. Thus, RA 4200 is inapplicable. In Navarro v. Court of Appeals, GR 121087 (Aug. 26, 1999), the Court differentiated between public and private conversations. Thus, it said that a heated exchange between two persons in the presence of a third who recorded secretly the exchange was not private in nature, and therefore even if secretly recorded, was admissible in evidence. A conversation between a President and an Election Commissioner involving the conduct of an election is NOT a private conversation. NOTE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT. New York times versus United States. There, New York Times won the right to publish stolen Pentagon Papers on the ground that they involve public concerns. Anent the right to privacy, the court ruled that it must yield to public interest. INTERACT WITH THIS ARTICLE                |
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