What About Phone Calls Using the Internet?

Your "wire communications" or voice communications are subject to stronger legal protections than your other communications, regardless of what communications medium you use. So, for example, whether government agents intercept your landline telephone call, your cellular telephone call, or a telephone call made over the Internet, the Wiretap Act's exclusionary rule will prevent them from using that information as evidence against you in a criminal trial if they didn't get a wiretap order first. In contrast, the statute wouldn't prevent the government from using illegally intercepted "electronic communications" like text messages or emails as evidence.

Therefore, you may want to consider using Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, which allow you to send live voice communications — basically, phone calls — over the Internet. VoIP may be more private than regular calls for one big reason: it's easier to encrypt your conversation, as encrypting regular phone calls is very difficult and expensive. Unfortunately, there isn't any obviously effective and trustworthy option for encrypted VoIP that we can recommend at the moment. See our article on VoIP[создать] for futher details.

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