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Date: 1998-05-22
USA: Mehr Abhör/schnittstellen für GSM-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- USA: Mehr Abhör/schnittstellen für GSM CALEA oder Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - was für ein schöner Name für ein Gesetz, das GSM Betreiber verpflichtet, Abhörschnitt/Stellen einzurichten. Das FBI wünscht eine Ausweitung derselben, das Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) wünscht dies ausdrücklich nicht. CDT URGES FCC TO PROTECT PHONE PRIVACY AGAINST FBI SURVEILLANCE DEMANDS May 21, 1998 The privacy rights of Americans are at risk, and the nation's historical balance between privacy and law enforcement is being upset, by FBI wiretap proposals, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) argued in extensive comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission late yesterday. CDT's comments can be found at: http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/calea052098.html The Commission is reviewing the impact of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), a law that CDT argued in the comments it filed was only 'intended to preserve a minimum law enforcement surveillance capability in the face of technological change' and was not meant 'to serve as the basis for mandated expansions in that capability.' CALEA, CDT explained, is the latest chapter in the 30-year history of federal wiretap laws, which have always sought to balance constitutional privacy protections and law enforcement interests. CALEA calls for telecommunications companies to ensure that their systems do not impede law enforcement wiretaps by Oct. 25, 1998. But FBI efforts to use the law to enhance its surveillance abilities -- including creation of a cellular phone tracking system -- led CDT in March to ask the Commission to step in to protect privacy. At the same time, the FBI, telecommunications industry associations and individual companies also filed petitions with the FCC raising a number of issues. The FBI asked the Commission to use the law to impose further surveillance capabilities, such as monitoring parties to a conference call after the suspect has dropped off the call. The Commission issued a notice April 20 soliciting public comment on the implementation of CALEA. Responding to the Commission's request for comments on the privacy issues inherent in CALEA's implementation, CDT argued that electronic surveillance capabilities have been subject to both technological and legal limitations since Congress first passed legislation on the issue in 1968. Both in that year and in 1994, when CALEA was passed, Congress 'crafted a legislative scheme intended to balance the interests of law enforcement and privacy,' CDT said. The FCC has a 'pivotal' role in ensuring that Congress' historical balance is applied to technologies that form the basis for a wide variety of new communications services, CDT argued. CDT's challenge highlights two technologies - wireless location information and packet network services - that are at the very heart of the digital communications revolution, because: ** tens of millions of Americans rely on cellular phones and PCS devices for personal and professional communications on a daily basis, and ** the Internet, with its highly efficient packet-based architecture, is credited as the sine qua non of the information revolution, and has expanded commercial, political, and educational opportunities for individuals in the United States and around the world. CDT asked the FCC to reject the FBI's location tracking proposal, to develop standards for surveillance in packet networks that protect the privacy of communications the government is not authorized to intercept, and to reject FBI requests for capabilities that go beyond the narrow mandate of the Act. relayed by graeme browning. tnx. http://www.cdt.org -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP http://www.chelidonia.com keywords: santorini, oia, holidays -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-05-22 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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