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 q/depesche 98.9.15/2
 related    98.9.13/3
 
 USA: GSM/Lauschangriff auf Eis gelegt
 
 Die Sehnsucht aller Lauschangriffs/Behörden in DE, AT & dem
 Rest der Welt gilt einer direkten Verbindung zu den
 GSM/Netzen, wobei die millionenschweren Kosten der jeweilige
 Betreiber tragen soll.
 
 Das FBI ist damit vorerst ab/geblitzt. Die
 US/Fernmeldebehörde FCC hat den Gesetzentwurf mit dem
 klangvollen Kürzel CALEA bis Juni 2000 auf Eis gelegt.
 
 postscrypt: Der unten zitierte Artikel aus der NYtimes
 stammt von John Markoff, dessen Person am Sonntag Grund für
 die Hack/attack auf die genannte Zeitung war.
 
 
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 The Federal Communications Commission on Friday, September
 11 delayed until June 30, 2000 the effective date of CALEA,
 the 1994 law requiring telephone carriers to modify their
 equipment to ensure law enforcement agencies can continue to
 carry out wiretaps and other surveillances on digital
 switches. The law had been scheduled to take effect on
 October 25 of this year.  The Commission gave carriers an
 additional 20 months to complete modifications needed to
 preserve law enforcement capabilities.  The FCC delayed
 indefinitely implementation of certain expansions in wiretap
 capability sought by the FBI, including the ability to track
 wireless phone users, until the Commission could undertake a
 separate inquiry into the privacy implications of the FBI's
 demands.
 
 The Commission's order and supporting documents are on-line
 in full text at http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/FCC911.html
 
 The order means that carriers will not be required -- yet
 anyhow -- to build location tracking capabilities and
 capabilities to intercept packet-switch communications until
 the Commission has a chance to rule on the privacy issues at
 stake.  CDT was concerned that the FBI was using the looming
 deadline to force carriers to build capabilities that were
 not required by the act and which were under challenge.
 This ruling should freeze the development of the special
 surveillance features that the FBI wanted until the privacy
 issues are resolved.
 
 The extension is an important step, a recognition that
 compliance with CALEA is not possible at this time given the
 confusion and delay generated by the FBI's demands, but now
 we are in for a big fight over the privacy issues.
 ...
 The FBI is still pushing to turn wireless phones into
 location tracking devices.  We are certain that Congress did
 not intend to turn cell phones into tracking devices.  But
 regardless of how the Commission ultimately rules on this
 one, Congress should increase the legal standard for
 government access to location information, since currently
 the standard for ordering a carrier to turn on a tracking
 capability is too low, allowing the government to track
 people who are not even suspected of criminal conduct.
 
 Full background on CALEA
 http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/
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