Originally Posted by
Sunfish
“boss would you ring 5674534 and tell mrs. bloggs that her husband wants her urgently to reduce the reserve on the house by $20000 and sell it quick smart..”
I would expect the husband and your boss to give you a severe kick if you passed such a message over airband, which is clearly an unsecure and non-private mechanism. Everyone knows many people have receivers and scanners, which is why
telephone calls instead are used to provide privacy and confidentiality.
but you and any authorised station listeners are prohibited by law from divulging or making use of that information.
Quote the "law" please -
This is the same confidentiality condition that applies to Telstra, Optus, etc.
No it isn't..
Privacy and confidentiality of telecommunications and messaging systems are specifically covered in the Act I mentioned. Privacy and confidentiality for such communications includes radio communications
if the radio link is directly connected into the PSTN e.g. cordless phones, a telephone call made via one of the HF RadTel networks.
If instead the radio communication is simply people conversing over airband, CB radio or whatever, there is no privacy nor should there be any expectation of same.