[IP] Sounds like CALEA....

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:20:39 -0500 (EST)
To: David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Sounds like CALEA....

Dutch ISP Sues to Recover Tapping Costs

Thu Mar 10,11:24 AM ET


By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Want us to spy for you? Here's the
bill. That's what, in effect, a Dutch Internet service provider
is saying to its government as it sues for reimbursement of
costs it says it has incurred to install technology used for
online surveillance.

XS4ALL said it has spent $660,000 since 2001 to comply with a 1998
law requiring that it be able to track Web sites' subscribers'
visits and read their e-mail. The data could be handed over to
police and prosecutors with a court order.

"XS4ALL thinks it is unreasonable that the state doesn't compensate
these costs," the company said in a statement. "There's no gain
at all for providers in making these investments, which are in
the general public interest of tracing criminals."

The suit, filed in The Hague (news - web sites), is scheduled to
be heard on March 23.

Wibbe Alkema, a Justice Ministry spokesman, said XS4ALL would
need to successfully challenge Dutch telecommunications law to
win its case. The law calls on telecommunications companies to
pay for "investment, exploitation and maintenance costs incurred"
in complying with tapping requests.


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