Wiretapping effects on Delmarva

On a national level,  Wikileaks publishing thousands of documents is a very big topic. Its about CIA files that describe hacking tools the government uses to break into some of your everyday devices

47 ABC checked in locally to see exactly what it would look like to wiretap a smart phone or other device and whether it's something the average citizen needs to be concerned about..

Travis Fisher, the executive vice president of Inacom Information System, says the government has had the ability to wiretap phones for quite a long time. He also says that his industry is seeing the use of technology to actually monitor information that's going across the internet. 

In his experience and what he's seen from wikileaks, the C-I-A can wiretap just about everything from your smart TVs and phones to your computers.

Fisher says, "Unfortunately you don't really know that you're being wiretapped or surveiled. From what I've seen and some of the documentation, they can turn on a microphone without the T-V actually appearing to be on. So I would say that you probably don't have the opportunity to avoid it unless you want to give up email or maybe have more talks in person and things like that."

While there may not be a fool proof way to protect devices from being wiretapped, Fisher says if privacy is something you're concerned about, you should probably talk to your elected officials in order to effect change.