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October 26, 2005
Heard around the Blogosphere: Coverage of COMPTEL v. FCC (Challenge of FCC’s Internet Wiretapping Rules)
Yesterday pulver.com joined with: The American Library Association, The Association of Research Libraries, COMPTEL, The Center for Democracy and Technology, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Electronic Privacy Information Center and Sun Microsystem and filed with the D.C. Circuit a petition for review challenging the FCC's CALEA order.
Back in February, 2004 when the FCC granted what has become known as the “Pulver Order”, which was the first positive rulemaking by the FCC on VoIP, they clearly defined that end-to-end IP Communication services that didn’t touch the legacy telephony network (PSTN) was not a “telecommunications service.” Back then the FCC recognized that voice in fact was ”An Application” and not “A service.” I would have never imagined that a little more than a year and half later I would be party to a challenge of the FCC’s approach to VoIP, but here I am. This FCC seems to have forgotten that voice is “an application” and is acting as if it was “a service”, at least in the context of their approach to VoIP and CALEA.
As more and more people learn the context of what the FCC was trying to do with their CALEA order, I am confident that this is a challenge that will not go away unnoticed and may become one of the rallying cries that wakes up a generation of people who are “growing up on broadband.”
Challenge of FCC’s Internet Wiretapping Rules - In the Blogosphere and the News:
- Andy Abramson: CALEA Opponents Unite:
- Susan Crawford: CALEA suits filed
- Susan Crawford: CALEA: Divide and conquer
- Paul Jardine: Regulated Dementia
- Associated Press: Internet phone wiretap rule challenged
- ComputerWeekly: US universities challenge FBI wiretapping ruling
- Infoworld: Group challenge FCC's VOIP wiretapping rules
- InternetNews.com: VoIP Wiretap Order Heads to Court
- Technology News Daily: Internet wiretapping being Challenged
- Washington Post: New Rules On Internet Wiretapping Challenged
Tags: voip, fcc, calea
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Posted by jeff on October 26, 2005 08:48 AM | Permalink
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Comments
Readers are referenced to my reply to Jeff on 25 October on this subject. Apparently if one doesn't agree with Jeff on this issue, their views don't get referenced. The FCC will prevail here because they considered the record in the proceeding and the needs of law enforcement and the industry for forensic evidentiary information, and crafted minimalist rules that also meet the intent of Congress.
Posted by: Tony Rutkowski at October 26, 2005 12:59 PM