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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)




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