EFF "Surveillance: Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act(CALEA) & Digital Telephony Wiretapping - 1999" Archive

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19991118_eff_v_fcc_pressrel.html

EFF press release on the filing of a legal challenge against the FCC's order granting the FBI almost all the new digital wiretapping authority it requested, in violation of statory authority and constitutional privacy protections. (Nov. 18, 1999)

19991116_eff_v_fcc_calea_petition.html

Full text of EFF's legal filing in EFF v. FCC (later USTA et al. v. FCC), a legal challenge against the FCC's order granting the FBI almost all the new digital wiretapping authority it requested, in violation of statory authority and constitutional privacy protections. Mirrors a sister case filed in Washington DC by ACLU and EPIC. (Nov. 16, 1999)

19990827_fcc_calea_pressrel.htm

FCC press release on their CALEA order. (Aug. 27, 1999)

19990826_fcc_calea_order.html

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order granting the FBI almost all the new digital wiretapping authority it requested, over the strenuous objections of privacy organizations, industry and the general public. CC Docket No. 97-213, FCC 99-230. Order is questionably legal (being challenged in court, starting Nov. 24, 1999). Full text (long). (Aug. 26, 1999)

19990421_leahy_electr_rghts.bill

This is a bill introduced by Senator Leahy some sections of which were eventually incorporated in other bills and in the FCC implementation order relevant to CALEA. This bill was read twice on the floor and referred to committee and never was voted on in this form. The titles were: Title I: Privacy Protection for Communications and Electronic Information Title II: Promoting Use of Encryption Title III: Privacy Protection for Library Loan and Book Sale Records Title IV: Privacy Protection for Satellite Home Viewers

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USTA_v_FCC/

Directory of information and case documents from USTA, et al. v. FCC, a joint USTA, EFF, EPIC, ACLU, CDT and CTIA legal challenge against the FCC's 1999 order granting the FBI extensive new wiretapping powers under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.

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Relevant documents from 1997-8

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