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The FCC’s Wiretapping decision under fire

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Apparently not only I think that the latest decision of the FCC is ridicules :

The skepticism expressed so openly toward the government’s case during a hearing in U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia emboldened a broad group of civil liberties and education groups who argued that the U.S. improperly applied telephone-era rules to a new generation of Internet services.

"Your argument makes no sense," U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission, Jacob Lewis. "When you go back to the office, have a big chuckle. I’m not missing this. This is ridiculous."

At another point in the hearing, Judge Edwards told the FCC’s lawyer his arguments were "gobbledygook" and "nonsense." The court’s decision was expected within several months.

Judge Edwards appeared skeptical over the FCC’s decision to require that providers of Internet phone service and broadband services must ensure their equipment can accommodate police wiretaps under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, known as CALEA. The new rules go into effect in May 2007.

 

Maybe we still have some hope.

Written by Rogel

May 5th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

Posted in Telecom, human Rights


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