FBI Fails to Justify Extending Wiretap Design Mandates to the Internet, CDT Says
Do we REALLY think that the FBI needs to prove necessity, regardless of what the law says? All they need to do is use the magic word "terrorism" to get anything that they desire. Meantime, the ISPs will be obliged to spend billions to change their technology to permit the intrusion.
In a detailed letter, CDT on March 2 urged the Federal Communications Commission to stop its on-going rulemaking process to impose wiretap design mandates on the Internet. CDT has long argued that the FCC lacks the statutory power to take such action. In its latest filing, after reviewing hundreds of pages of comments by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, CDT concluded that there is no evidence of any problem justifying such mandates. The Commission has been considering the issue of design requirements for Voice over Internet Protocol services since 2003, but has announced no schedule for action. [Center for Democracy and Technology]