Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day

Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day

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May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.

Congress passed CALEA in 1994 to help FBI eavesdroppers deal with digital telecom technology. The law required phone companies to make their networks easier to wiretap. The results: on mobile phone networks, where CALEA tech has 100% penetration, it's credited with boosting the number of court-approved wiretaps a carrier can handle simultaneously, and greatly shortening the time it takes to get a wiretap going. Cops can now start listening in less than a day.

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Related News Links:
en.wikipedia.org
www.askcalea.net
www.fcc.gov

Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
CALEA Comminications assistance for Law Enforcement Act

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act

It just seems that every time I turn around we have more surveillance and less privacy.

Oh I know, it's all for our own good, but damn, just how much information do these people need ?

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And here's some more stuff in the general area;

the Department of Defense (DOD) will soon
suspend/block/censor a number of sites over the DOD networks.

Myspace, Youtube, MTV, Blackplanet, photobucket, live365,
hi.5.com, pandora.com, 1.fm.....and others

the Troops in Iraq & Afghanistan previously had access to these
and other sites over the DOD network...But No Longer Will Have!

read about it here,
and read the comments following the news blurb,
one which says the state-side DOD network already has these
sites blocked for years already

www.opednews.com...

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