Wiretapping Woes

Author

Upson, Sandra

Volume

44

Issue

5

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

12

Abstract

After the U.S. Congress passed the landmark wiretapping law, law enforcement officers now could conduct a wiretap centrally on a carrier´s network by duplicating a phone call digitally and directing the copy to police headquarters. Starting on 14 May, the 1994 law, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), will also apply to some voice over Internet Protocol providers (VoIP), and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked that it eventually be extended to all Internet-based communications. With this law, the VoIP providers have the ability to route calls over the traditional telephone network, even if only some calls end up traveling that way.

Keywords

Internet telephony; government policies; protocols; security of data; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act; Internet-based communications; U.S. Congress; U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; VoIP; landmark wiretapping law; phone call; police headquarters; telephone network; voice over Internet Protocol; Application software; Communication switching; Games; Internet telephony; Law enforcement; Legged locomotion; Switches; Switching circuits; Telecommunication switching; Web server; Wiretapping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSPEC.2007.352523

Filename

4163097