RA 4200 (Almonicar)

Question 1

What is The Anti-Wiretapping Act

Answer 1

RA 4200

Question 2

What is the title of RA 4200?

Answer 2

An Act to Prohibit and Penalize Wiretapping and other related violations of the privacy of communication, and for other purposes

Question 3

How many sections does RA 4200 have?

Answer 3

6 sections

Question 4

Is the practice of secretly listening to or recording telephone or internet conversations without the consent of the parties involved

Answer 4

Wiretapping

Question 5

Who is the author of RA 4200

Answer 5

Senator Lorenzo M. Tañada

Question 6

When i the enactment of RA 4200

Answer 6

June 19, 1965

Question 7

Purpose of RA 4200

Answer 7

prohibit and penalize wiretapping
protect individual’s privacy

Question 8

Imprisonment sentence for violation of RA 4200

Answer 8

atleast 6 months to no more than 6 years

Question 9

What happens to a public official who violates RA 4200

Answer 9

they lose their right to hold any public office forever

Question 10

What happens to a foreigner who violates RA 4200

Answer 10

They could be deported from the country

Question 11

is also known as the Regional Trial Court

Answer 11

The Court of First Instance

Question 12

Is the local court that handles important legal cases in a specific area

Answer 12

Regional Trial Court

Question 13

It shall be unlawful for any person, not being authorized by all the parties to any private communication or spoken word, to _____, or by using any other device or arrangement, to _______, _______, or ______ such communication or spoken word.

Answer 13

tap any wire or cable, secretly overhear, intercept, record

Question 14

A device used to record such communication or spoken word are commonly known as a

Answer 14

Dictaphone, Dictagraph, Detectaphone, Walkie-Talkie, Taperecorder

Question 15

It shall also be unlawful for any person, be he a participant or not in the act or acts penalized in the next preceding sentence, to _______ any tape record, wire record, disc record, or any other such record, or copies thereof.

Answer 15

knowingly possess

Question 16

After the authorized period ends, all recordings must be sealed and submitted to the court within ___ hours

Answer 16

48 hours

Question 17

The law allows ______ to record or listen to private communications if they have a written court order.

Answer 17

Peace Officers

Question 18

When did RA 4200 get published on the Official Gazette?

Answer 18

May 16, 1966

Question 19

Nothing contained in this Act, however, shall render it unlawful or punishable for any peace officer, who is authorized by a written order of the Court, to execute any of the acts declared to be unlawful in the two preceding sections in cases involving the crimes of treason, espionage, provoking war and disloyalty in case of war, piracy, mutiny in the high seas, rebellion, conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion, inciting to rebellion, sedition, conspiracy to commit sedition, inciting to sedition, kidnapping as defined by the _________

Answer 19

Revised Penal Code and Violations of Commonwealth Act No. 616

Question 20

All recordings made under court authorization shall, within forty-eight hours after the expiration of the period fixed in the order, be deposited with the court in a ______________________.

Answer 20

Sealed envelope or sealed package

Question 21

The authorization shall be effective for the period specified in the order which shall not exceed ______ days from the date of issuance of the order, unless extended or renewed by the court upon being satisfied that such extension or renewal is in the public interest.

Answer 21

60