Mark,
wispa wrote:
I have been attempting for how long now, to get across to you people that
this whole CALEA flap for ISP's is NOT LAW, but opinion from the FCC, where
it's attempting to write law instead of Congress.
It's a mess, because it's NOT LAW, only Congress can write law and it has yet
to write a law that says we have to do squat.
Did you even bother to read the press release mentioned in your recent post?
http://www.askcalea.com/docs/20040317.fbi.release.pdf
As quoted from the press release mentioned above;
"Congress enacted CALEA in 1994 to help the nation's law enforcement
community maintain its ability to use court-authorized electronic
surveillance as an important investigative tool in an era of new
telecommunications technologies and services. Today, electronic
surveillance plays a vitally important role in law enforcement's ability
to ensure national security and public safety."
Also quoted from the same press release;
"Specifically, the petition requests the FCC establish rules that
formally identify services and entities covered by CALEA, so both law
enforcement and industry are on notice with respect to CALEA obligations
and compliance. The petition makes this request because disagreements
continue between industry and law enforcement over whether certain
services are subject to CALEA. The petition requests the FCC find
“broadband access” and “broadband telephony” to be subject to CALEA."
Got any links for these other places you speak of?
Below is a link to the latest report about CALEA and the
reclassification of Wireless Providers as information services in case
anyone is interested in reading. Page 18 and 19 make for some
interesting reading. ;-)
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-30A1.pdf
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
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