Title :
Internet wiretapping decision headed for the courts
Abstract :
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) faces a legal challenge over its decision to compel broadband and voice-over-IP service providers to comply with wiretapping requests under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. Law enforcement is not internally developing the capability to understand IP communications and that means law enforcement is completely unable to intercept the communications of any sophisticated terrorist organization or criminal organization, because it is a trivial matter for a moderately knowledgeable engineer to sit down and create a voice communication system just to be used by the internal criminal network.
Keywords :
IP networks; Internet telephony; broadband networks; legislation; IP communication; Internet wiretapping; US Federal Communications Commission; broadband service provider; law enforcement; voice communication system; voice-over-IP service provider; Communication cables; DSL; FCC; Internet telephony; Law enforcement; Legal factors; Libraries; Logic; Privacy; Telecommunication services; CALEA; Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act; FCC; VoIP; voice-over-IP;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2006.12
