Internet wiretapping decision headed for the courts

Author

Goth, Gary

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

10

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2006.12

Filename

1580407