Readily Accessible to The General Public Law and Legal Definition
According to 18 USCS § 2510 [Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure Part i. Crimes Chapter 119. Wire and Electronic Communications Interception and Interception of Oral Communications] readily accessible to the general public means, “with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not--
(A) scrambled or encrypted;
(B) transmitted using modulation techniques whose essential parameters have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of such communication;
(C) carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission;
(D) transmitted over a communication system provided by a common carrier, unless the communication is a tone only paging system communication; or
(E) transmitted on frequencies allocated under part 25, subpart D, E, or F of part 74, or part 94 of the Rules of the Federal Communications Commission, unless, in the case of a communication transmitted on a frequency allocated under part 74 that is not exclusively allocated to broadcast auxiliary services, the communication is a two-way voice communication by radio.
