§ 7906 Telephone Privacy Oversight

• •The government checks phone companies to make sure they protect your private calls.
• •Phone companies must take steps to keep your conversations private.
• •If a phone company doesn’t protect your privacy, the government can find out and make them fix it.

You call your friend to talk about a secret birthday party.

The phone company must make sure no one else can listen to your call. If they don’t, the government can tell them to do better.