[IP] Broadband service providers face wiretapping deadline

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: April 27, 2007 2:17:21 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Broadband service providers face wiretapping  
deadline

Broadband service providers face wiretapping deadline
Information Week
By K.C. Jones

Broadband service providers have until May 14 to upgrade their  
networks so law enforcement agencies can wiretap their IP networks  
for voice and data communications.

The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was enacted in  
1994 and already requires phone companies to have such capabilities.  
The Federal Communications Commission ruled in 2005 that broadband  
and VoIP providers must be able to facilitate wiretaps used by  
intelligence authorities to allow old practices to be applied to  
newer technology.

<http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml? 
articleID=199201924>


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