Overview: CALEA is the bill which tries to force telephone infrastructure companies to install equipment which provides the FBI remote desktop wiretapping capability for 1% of all USA phonecalls. That's an awful lot of calls... the kind of volume one needs for a priori suspicion and expert system monitoring. Privacy people fight it for obvious reasons. Telephone companies fight it because it only gave them $500 million and that's far from their cost to install Big Brother into every switch. Updates will doubtless eventually arrive, though I couldn't detect anything new in usenet or web... or on the nytimes web site. -hedges- >X-Sender: jya@pop.pipeline.com >Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:11:11 -0400 >To: cypherpunks@toad.com >From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> >Subject: FBI Sued on CALEA >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net >Precedence: first-class >Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> >X-Loop: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net > >NYT's John Markoff reports today on a suit to be filed >today by the cellular phone industry against CALEA regs >on wiretapping -- alleging improper FBI guidelines under >the legislation. A lead on getting a copy of the filing would >be appreciated; U.S. District Court in Washington DC is >the venue. >
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