Congress ‘explicitly excluded’ the Internet from the Communicatio...
Congress “explicitly excluded” the Internet from the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act’s (CALEA’s)scope, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Leahy (D-Vt.) said Wed. Leahy, CALEA’s main sponsor in 1994, had harsh words for an FCC order bringing broadband and…
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VoIP under the law’s purview. Congress wants “to re- visit the appropriateness of such an expansion as the Internet developed,” he said: Building wiretaps into the public switched telephone network was approved only “after careful analysis over several years by the Congress of the costs, burdens, alternatives and security risks posed by a new regulatory scheme.” Echoing a petition filed Tues. by several groups to overturn the FCC order (WID Oct 26 p3), Leahy said law enforcement hasn’t said what problems, if any, it’s having with interception on the Internet. “Congressional hearings are a good place to start” discussing solutions for existing problems, he said. “The FBI’s own mishaps” with technology should give the FCC pause about giving it and other agencies authority to set technology mandates, Leahy said. A Senate Judiciary spokeswoman told us Leahy and other panel Democrats hadn’t decided whether to ask in their own petition that the U.S. Appeals Court, D.C., overturn the FCC order.