phone-tapping
wire tapping AmE
telephone tapping

In wire tapping, cops are supposed to turn off the recorder when the conversation is of the nature not specified in the warrant.

This is great news - there were similar laws passed here in Illinois, where state police were treating recordings as wire tapping.

After he shot the guy he screamed, "Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?"

Would I have thought it justifiable to use wire tapping?

March 5, 2005 Vodafone decides to remove the foreign interception software without finding the culprits of the wire tapping.

He also mentions the "suicide" without however, connecting it to the wire tapping incident.

February 2, 2006 Criminal charges are filed against unknown perpetrators for wire tapping.

February 3, 2006 The press widely believes that the wire tapping case is related to the suicide of Tsalikidis.

Castro was forced into early retirement after a wire tapping scandal.

In some countries TI is called wire tapping.