Civil damages are available.
Cellular and cordless telephone communications are protected under federal law FCC regulations also govern interception and recording. It is also illegal to intentionally use or disclose any information concerning the substance, purport or meaning of such a communication if one knows or has reason to know the information was obtained illegally. The statute requires a reasonable expectation of privacy for oral communications. In other words, to be protected an oral communication must be uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that the communication is not subject to interception, under circumstances that justify that expectation. It is legal to intercept a radio communication that is transmitted by any governmental, law enforcement, civil defense, private land mobile, or public safety communications system, including police and fire department communications, that is readily accessible to the general public.