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CYBERCRIME LAW AND INVESTIGATIONS
Response to question 1:
It is already known that wiretapping becomes accountable for invading the
communication privacy, the Fourth Amendment towards the constitution of the United States
directly becomes applicable to the conduct of the officials of the government which comprises of
wiretapping (Bellovin et al., 2014). In simple words, wiretapping is basically referred to the
secret monitoring electronic monitoring of telegraph, telephone, fax, cellular or several kinds of
communication which are based on internet.
At a certain point of time, wiretap becomes a search as this particular procedure is
utilized by the police for the aim of listening to several kinds of telephonic conversations with
respect to the occurrence of any kind of cybercrime (Shirvanian & Saxena, 2014). Additionally,
wiretap becomes a search where the police or the cybercrime investigators in tracking several
kinds of suspicious conversations which would turn become helpful in detecting the occurrences
of several kinds of cybercrimes as well as detecting them.
The most interesting factor forms is that the police needs to receive the consent of either
of the parties for the aim of utilizing wiretap or listening to certain telephonic conversations
(Ulrich 2014). Additionally, without the order of the court, the police or the investigators could
never listen to those particular conversations taking place among people with respect to which
any cybercrime could take place.
In the context of the Fourth Amendment, it does not become applicable with respect to all the
wiretaps as wiretap is a kind of search and it has initially been ruled that electronic wiretapping
is not any form of search or any kind of seizure (Ulrich, 2015). The reason behind this is that the
conversations which are intercepted by the government are never tangible things which could be

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