[privacy] U.S. Appeals Court Challenges Internet Wiretap Rules

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Check it out.

Via USA Today (AP).

[snip]

A U.S. appeals panel challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI 
to wiretap Internet phone calls. One judge told the government its courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook" and invited 
its lawyer to return to his office and "have a big chuckle."

The skepticism expressed so openly toward the government's case during a hearing in U.S. Circuit Court for the District 
of Columbia emboldened a broad group of civil liberties and education groups who argued that the U.S. improperly 
applied telephone-era rules to a new generation of Internet services.

"Your argument makes no sense," U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the lawyer for the Federal Communications 
Commission, Jacob Lewis. "When you go back to the office, have a big chuckle. I'm not missing this. This is ridiculous. 
Counsel!"

[snip]

More here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-05-internetwiretaps_x.htm

- ferg

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