[IP] Re: FCC takes steps to remove neutrality, privacy obligations from wireless broadband

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net>
Date: March 23, 2007 12:06:53 PM EDT
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] Re: FCC takes steps to remove neutrality, privacy  
obligations from wireless broadband

Steve:

The FBI disagrees, but I think you are correct.

Peter

Prof. Peter Swire
C. William O'Neill Professor of Law
Moritz College of Law of the
Ohio State University
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
(240) 994-4142, www.peterswire.net


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   FCC takes steps to remove neutrality, privacy
obligations from wireless broadband
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, March 23, 2007 10:12 am
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: peter@peterswire.net

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:15:30 -0400 David Farber <dave@farber.net>  
wrote: > > The anti-wiretap privacy laws would still apply, however.  
Under the > Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510,  
current law > would still prohibit a phone company or the government  
from > wiretapping content, unless an exception applied. > Correct me  
if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the reclassification exempt such services  
from CALEA? (The applicability of CALEA is highly debatable in any  
event, but I thought that information servcies were completely  
exempt.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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