[privacy] FBI Floats Wide-Ranging Wiretap Proposal

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

This sounds pretty screwed up to me...

Via InfoWorld.

[snip]

Foreign Internet service and applications providers would be required
to base inside the country the servers they use for U.S. customers,
under a proposal from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The DOJ and its U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) division are
taking that message to the U.S. Congress and asking lawmakers for a
broad rewrite of U.S. wiretapping rules.

However, some members of Congress have ripped into the Chinese
government for a similar law requiring Internet providers to locate
their servers inside its borders.

U.S. lawmakers have criticized the Chinese law because it allows the
government to censor and monitor Internet traffic. The DOJ proposal,
which would amend a 1994 telephone wiretapping law called the
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), aims to
allow the U.S. government easier access to servers so it, too, can
monitor communications.

The proposed law, not yet introduced in Congress, would likely set off
an arms race in which other countries that want to conduct online
surveillance require U.S. companies such as Google Inc. and Microsoft
Corp. to locate servers inside their borders, said John Morris,
director of the Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project at
the Center for Democracy and Technology, a civil liberties group.

[snip]

More:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/14/HNfbiwiretap_1.html

- ferg


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