EFF "Surveillance: Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act(CALEA) & Digital Telephony Wiretapping - 2000" Archive

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20000229_reno_calea_excerpts.html: Excerpts from "Statement of Janet Reno Attorney General of the United States Before the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies", Feb. 29, 2000. EFF believes that this statement by the Attorney General finally gives the lie to the FBI's expressed rationale for CALEA, that it was simply intended to preserve current wiretapping powers, for use in criminal investigations with proper search warrants. Reno's funding request includes monies for vastly expanded wiretapping activities, and mentions Dept. of Defense funding for similar "national security" activities far outside the scope of domestic law enforcement. The linking of CALEA to (and blurring of CALEA with) financial privacy invasion, DNA sample databasing, anti-encryption measures, and massive data mining is alarming.
20000120_eff_calea_pr.html: EFF Press Release: GROUPS CHALLENGE FBI WIRETAP STANDARDS; SAY FCC DECISION THREATENS COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY (Jan. 20, 2000)
200001_us_fed_wiretap_laws.html: US federal wiretapping statutes as of Jan. 2000, in full text: 18 USC 2510-2522, 18 USC 2701-2711, 18 USC 3117, 18 USC 3121-2127, 47 USC 1001-1021. (Includes CALEA's amendments to older statutes.)

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