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CALEA requires that all telephone companies (and now mobile phone and cable companies) provide a means of "tapping" a phone line. To my knowledge, there's noth
by smoyer 13y ago
CALEA requires that all telephone companies (and now mobile phone and cable companies) provide a means of "tapping" a phone line. To my knowledge, there's nothing similar that says a data service has to provide the ability to retrieve unencrypted data.
- SideburnsOfDoom 13y agoWhat they required was more like the means to tap all the phone lines simultaneously.
- lymie 13y agoThis is why phone companies are allowed to be a monopoly. No mom and pop shop would allow it.
- ipsin 13y agoSee Section 216 of the Patriot Act, which throws in the ability to get "pen register" information (metadata) from Internet communications. http://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/subs/add_myths.htm#s216 http://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/subs/add_myths.htm#s216 Yet another reason to repeal the "Patriot" Act.
- gaadd33 13y agoWouldn't metadata in this case be like "Ip X connected at Y and transferred Z bytes"? Similar to what a pen register produces with a phone call.