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>X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.1 >Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:44:15 -0400 >From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" <[log in to unmask]> >To: ALA Washington Office Newsline <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: [SPAM:###] [ALA-WO:18] Oppose Wiretapping the Internet >Sender: [log in to unmask] >X-Spam: Probability=77%, Report='URI_CLASS_SCAM_DOMAIN 8, EXCUSE_11 1.464, >__HAS_X_MAILER 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __EVITE_CTYPE 0, >__CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CD 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, >TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY 0.000, __C230066_P5 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, BAYES_00_10 -2' > >ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline >Volume 13, Number 49 >July 20, 2004 > >In This Issue: OPPOSE WIRETAPPING THE INTERNET > >We are writing you to urge you to call your Senator, if he or she is on >the Senate Commerce Committee (see below), and ask your Senator to >oppose any amendments to S. 2281, introduced by Senator John Sununu >(R-NH), that would extend CALEA's (Communications Assistance for Law >Enforcement) wiretap mandates to Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and >Internet services. We understand that several Senators are planning >amendments that would extend the wiretap design requirements of CALEA to >VOIP services. Please note that Sen. Sununu's bill, as introduced, does >not contain these provisions; they would be added by amendment. > >On Thursday, July 22, the Senate Commerce Committee will consider >whether to impose mandates to require VOIP services to build various >capabilities into their switches so that Internet phone calls can be >easily wiretapped. This has profound implications for the future of the >Internet. > >BACKGROUND >CALEA is the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994. >It required traditional phone companies to build various capabilities >into their switches so phone calls can be easily wiretapped. When >Congress passed CALEA, it explicitly excluded the Internet from the >scope of these surveillance mandates. The FBI used the law to get >capabilities it never used to have in the traditional phone system, and >CALEA has proven to be a costly design mandate. CALEA is especially >ill-suited to the Internet. Extending CALEA to VOIP and the Internet >would be bad for innovation, cost, privacy and security. > >VOIP is a new technology that uses the Internet for voice >communications, offering significant savings on long distance calls and >allowing services to be combined in innovative ways. Many libraries are >finding VOIP to be an excellent way to reduce costs. > >Law enforcement should be able to intercept Internet communications >with an appropriate court order. In fact, such communications can >already be "tapped" and service providers are voluntarily cooperating >with the FBI. CALEA, however, allows the FBI to actually control the >design of the technology, and could require libraries to reengineer >their systems and services -- at their own cost -- to be "CALEA >compliant". > >For more information on the potential impact of CALEA on libraries, see >the Office For Information Technology Policy's June, 2004 issue brief: >www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washevents/woannual/CALEA.pdf > >For information on contacting your Senator, go to >capwiz.com/ala/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdir > >Members of the Senate Commerce Committee: > >Sen. John McCain (R AZ) >Sen. Ted Stevens (R AK) >Sen. Conrad Burns (R MT) >Sen. Trent Lott (R MS) >Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R TX) >Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R ME) >Sen. Sam Brownback (R KS) >Sen. Gordon H. Smith (R OR) >Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald (R IL) >Sen. John Ensign (R NV) >Sen. George Allen (R VA) >Sen. John E. Sununu (R NH) > >Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D SC) >Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D HI) >Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D WV) >Sen. John F. Kerry (D MA) >Sen. John B. Breaux (D LA) >Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D ND) >Sen. Ron Wyden (D OR) >Sen. Barbara Boxer (D CA) >Sen. Bill Nelson (D FL) >Sen. Maria Cantwell (D WA) >Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D NJ) > > > > >****** >ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the >American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to >copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or >redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. > >To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo >[your_firstname] [your_lastname] to [log in to unmask] or go to >http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. 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