FCC Simplifies Gov't Snooping
by TChris
The Big Brothers in Washington are perturbed that it's so difficult to spy on your email. By means of an unfunded mandate, they're working to make it easier.
The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.
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The 1994 law, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, requires telephone carriers to engineer their switching systems at their own cost so that federal agents can obtain easy surveillance access.
An FCC order, instigated by the Justice Department, extends the law's reach "not only to universities, but also to libraries, airports providing wireless service and commercial Internet access providers."
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