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Face-to-Face Conversations Are the Safest Bet
As shown in the last section, government eavesdropping of your "oral communications" or face-to-face conversations using "bugs" or hidden microphones is very rare: only 20 court orders authorizing oral intercepts were reported in the 2007 wiretap report, compared to 1,998 orders authorizing wiretapping of "wire communications" or voice communications. In other words, you are 100 times more likely to have your phone conversations tapped than to have your face-to-face conversations "bugged".
Not only are your oral conversations at less risk than your phone conversations, but they also receive the same strong legal protections as your phone conversations. Like your phone calls and unlike your non-voice Internet communications, oral communications that are intercepted in violation of the Wiretap Act are subject to that statute's exclusionary rule, and cannot be used against you as evidence in a criminal trial.
Therefore, face-to-face conversations in private are the most secure method of communicating. Deciding whether to talk face-to-face rather than send an email or make a telephone call becomes a traditional security trade-off: is the inconvenience of having to meet face-to-face worth the security gain? Depending on whom you want to talk to and where they are, that inconvenience could be trivial or it could mean a cross-country trip. If the person you want to communicate with is in the same office or just next door, you may want to choose a private conversation even for communications that aren't particularly sensitive. When it comes to your very most sensitive data, though, that cross-country flight might be worth the trade-off.
Just because the risk of oral interception is very low doesn't mean you shouldn't take technical precautions to reduce that risk, particularly when it comes to very sensitive conversations. Therefore, depending on how convenient it is and how sensitive the conversation is — again, it's a trade-off — you may want to have your conversation in a room that does not contain a landline telephone or a computer with a built-in or attached microphone or camera, and either not carry your cell phone or remove its battery (the microphone on some phones can be activated even when the phone is powered down, unless you remove the battery). Even if your conversation isn't especially sensitive, it doesn't hurt to detach external microphones and cameras from your laptop or cover the lens of attached cameras with a small piece of tape when they aren't in use. It's easy to do, and ensures that remote activation of those mics and cameras is one less thing to worry about.
