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US VoIP wiretapping legality hazy, says EFF
Blog The Electronic Frontier Foundation has said the legality of US law enforcement wiretapping foreign internet telephony providers is unclear. US wiretapping law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), does not make...
[August 5, 2009, 13:13]
IETF rejects wiretapping plan
News The IETF was considering designing a protocol to allow wiretapping of telephone calls made over the Internet. The Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) has voted overwhelmingly to reject plans for a global standard for snooping on Net telephone...
[November 11, 1999, 12:13]
Wiretapping may cost ISPs £17m - report
News Wiretapping the Internet -- in accordance with the government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill -- will cost Britain's 400 ISPs at least £17m in the first year, with the total cost to both ISPs and the government rising...
[April 26, 2000, 10:17]
Wiretap cover-up rings privacy alarm bells
News The Los Angeles Police Department and district attorney's office are covering up widespread and illegal wiretapping, the Los Angeles public defender's office charged Wednesday, in the latest round of a growing legal battle that's piqued the...
[October 22, 1999, 10:16]
Technologists assail federal Net-tapping rules
News A 21-page study to be released on Tuesday says it's impossible for the government to expect all products that use voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's September 2005 requirement mandating...
[June 13, 2006, 10:25]
Push to talk heads for Wi-Fi
News In the same document, the FCC reiterated its belief that push-to-talk calls are subject to federal wiretapping requirements. The systems being developed would not interconnect with the public switched telephone network and would therefore not be...
[August 12, 2004, 9:35]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop on foreigners
News The proposed law amounts to a rewrite of the 1978 wiretapping law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa). It would also allow for blanket approval of current and future electronic surveillance programmes - a departure from the...
[July 27, 2006, 12:05]
Weighing Bush's mixed technology legacy
News Instead of a presidency that might have become known for its technology policies — Bush was, remember, a businessman in Texas — he leaves Washington this week amid controversies involving the Iraq war, torture, wiretapping, an economic crisis and...
[January 20, 2009, 12:37]
PGP pioneer pushes VoIP encryption
News You can have point-and-click wiretapping," he said. Claiming that terrorists and drug criminals will use VoIP, the Bush administration has demanded that broadband Internet providers provide backdoors for government wiretapping.
[August 15, 2006, 16:25]
US sued over 'massively illegal' comms surveillance
News Such a practice violates free speech and privacy rights spelled out by the US Constitution, and also runs foul of federal wiretapping law, the EFF claimed. The American Civil Liberties Union won a brief victory in a similar case filed against the...
[September 19, 2008, 16:30]
FBI seeks power to eavesdrop on Net
News Under existing federal wiretapping laws, the FBI already has the ability to seek a court order to conduct surveillance of any broadband user though its DCS1000 system, previously called Carnivore. Digital wiretapping
[July 29, 2003, 14:21]
VoIP evades surveillance
News One proposed solution being mulled over by the FCC is to give wiretapping responsibility to broadband providers, whose high-speed Web connections are necessary to make VoIP calls. Skype's Zennstrom said wiretapping laws need to be rewritten to...
[February 16, 2004, 10:15]
VoIP evades surveillance
Talkback One proposed solution being mulled over by the FCC is to give wiretapping responsibility to broadband providers, whose high-speed Web connections. You say. You guys are a well respected, technology savvy company so perhaps you can tell me where I...
[February 16, 2004, 11:26]
Silent-Bob
Downloads It is wiretapping the recording-channel of your soundcard and on mouseclick it records your favourite song into a wav-file. Silent-Bob is your personnel audio recording tool. Since Silent-Bob is latching the last couple of minutes in the RAM you...
[February 28, 2001, 6:07]
FBI kills off Carnivore
Talkback Currently, FBI needs no warrant for wiretapping against "terror suspects. This Reuters' article is a misleading. The reality is the whole network in America has been growing into "Carnivore" by getting forced cooperation of ISPs with law enforcement .
[January 19, 2005, 17:04]
Senate won't quiz telcos about NSA spying
News A prominent Republican senator backed away on Tuesday from his pledge to question executives from telecommunications companies that have allegedly been cooperating with the government's secret wiretapping program.
[June 7, 2006, 11:00]
FBI wants to tap high-speed Internet
News A far-reaching proposal from the FBI, made public on Friday, would require all US broadband Internet providers, including cable modem and DSL companies, to rewire their networks to support easy wiretapping by police.
[March 15, 2004, 9:10]
Dutch government acknowledges Echelon spy network
News The Dutch Parliament has launched an inquiry into international communications wiretapping following the revelation, reports Radio Netherlands. The Dutch government has publicly acknowledged the existence of the covert satellite surveillance...
[January 24, 2001, 16:37]
Attacks silence privacy concerns
News Law-enforcement agencies in recent months have found themselves on the defensive over wiretapping and other intelligence-gathering technology, with Congress and the courts increasingly backing demands for greater accountability and restraint.
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
US Congress readies 'super-DMCA'
News A proposed copyright law seen by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers.
[April 25, 2006, 15:20]
