Group Appeals U.S. Government Eavesdropping Ruling
Declan McCullagh writes on C|Net News:
More here.
A coalition of civil liberties groups and technology companies, including Pulver.com and Sun Microsystems, is appealing a federal court ruling that forces Internet service providers to create backdoors for government wiretapping.
The coalition on Friday asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to review a June 9 ruling that sided with the Bush administration.
That 2-1 ruling said that Internet providers must rewire their networks and follow a complex scheme of eavesdropping regulations. The deadline is set for May 2007.
The groups behind the appeal, called an "en banc" rehearing, say they're happy to comply with legitimate court orders.
posted by Fergie @ 7/21/2006 07:15:00 PM
1 Comments:
The CNET article as well as the appeal are great creative writing. The reality is that most of the world requires these real-time forensic capabilities and has moved on to new platforms like data retention. The CALEA statute was adopted when The Internet was still officially a DARPA/NSF research network and plainly says nothing about the Internet. The FCC requirements don't require re-wiring anything, but rather the filing of privacy-enhancing security procedures, and the ability to report specific signalling events or content if there is a court order. The latter capabilities were developed through several years of industry-government standards collaboration.
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