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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on July 29, 2006, 12:00:45 am
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060727-7372.html
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), passed in 1994, has powered its way back onto the front page this summer, and if you 1) live in the US and 2) pay taxes, you might soon be paying to implement it. And if you're a drug-dealing mobster, you might soon be experiencing it.
The FBI wants the ability to tap VoIP calls. To do this, the agency also wants access to all of your network traffic—and it looks like it's on the way to getting it. Following a long set of legal battles, the US Court of Appeals in June upheld 2-1 a newer and broader definition of CALEA's scope that could affect every university and library in the country.
Hear that? It's another nail in the coffin for American civil liberties......
And on a somewhat related note, an interesting question has been posted on Slashdot:
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/07/29/0223253.shtml