One more industry falls

vanity | The Watcher

[Old_Mil]

No worries. After all, the Patriot Act and domestic surveillance are just fine as long as you're not breaking the law, right? Privacy isn't all that important. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is truth. I guess I better post this while I can.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[YoungAmerican84]

Somebody's going to be pissed about my online petitions...

[Kevmo]

Thanks for posting this. It was eye opening.

[Porterville]

Don't care. Seeing the "wild west" tamed is a good thing.

[flashbunny]

can't wait until we have government mandated thought monitoring.

[keat]

Source, please, for your claim that my internet connection is going to be tap.

[politicalwit]

can't wait until we have government mandated thought monitoring.

flashbunny....we already have it...it's called hate crimes.

[streetpreacher]

Did you get your feelings hurt? Were you outed? What?

[Zeroisanumber]

Twenty years from now our kids and grandkids are going to be shocked to hear that there was a time when we weren't constantly monitored by the government.

[ikka]

Just ignore it. That is what the VOIP companies did about E911 services. The FCC is not going to enforce it.

BTW, you don't need to worry about complying unless you are a Tier 1 ISP - if any part of your Internet connections travel over ATT/Level3/Cogent/XO etc, then the NSA is already plugged into their fiber.

[AntiGuv]

This makes no sense. First of all, I can find no confirmation of this one the Internet. Second, it's hard to believe that this would've passed in the first place with so little notice. Third, here is an article dated today that discusses a bill just introduced by Texas Rep. Lamar Smith that would do exactly what you allege is already going to be done. In fact I distinctly recall reading about his introduction of this before and that it didn't pass (and also that Rep. Marty Meehan wanted to introduce a bill that would do the opposite - require the deletion of most ISP records after a short timeframe).

So, in any case, I might certainly have missed something important, but for now I'm skeptical about this pending verification.

[GOPJ]

People who have never put together a small business will not understand the nature of your loss - my prayers are with you...

[The Watcher]

You are completely incorrect.

ALL FACILITIES BASED INTERNET PROVIDERS must comply. That means, if you have equipment that connects people or homes or businesses or places... YOU MUST COMPLY.

The VOIP providers did NOT ignore E911. I was about to get into the VOIP business. The VOIP business is all but dead, even with huge customer growth, because E911 mandates built in enough overhead on voice traffic to ensure that copper based voice wasn't in danger.

CALEA compliance for VOIP providers will be incredibly more complex and expensive, too.

[Unmarked Package]

"Second, it's hard to believe that this would've passed in the first place with so little notice"

Congress enacted CALEA in October, 1994.

[The Watcher]

You need confirmation? Ok.

http://www.askcalea.net < very "sterile" reading, government speak.

http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Digest/2006/dd061214.html

About mid page in the above URL.

A little more explanation on this next link.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/lawful-intercept/filing-date-for-calea-monitoring-report-upon-us.asp

This link should help a bit, too.

http://www.fcc.gov/calea/

Basically, it has now become unlawful to connect anyone to the internet faster than 200kbps without federal intervention, registration of your service, and statements of compliance with regulation.

Many ISP's don't even know they have to comply yet.

[FLOutdoorsman]

http://www.cybertelecom.org/voip/fcccalea.htm

Looks like May 14, 2007 is the actual date.

[The Watcher]

Congress passed CALEA in 1994. It was not until a few months (literally) ago, that the FCC and DOJ decided it would APPLY TO EVERYONE who engaged in the business of transferring information or voice anywhere.

[Gondring]

I believe the deadline is MAY 14, not MARCH 14...

See CALEA FAQ:

Question: By what date must CALEA be implemented?

Answer:

• Date: May 14, 2007
• Requirement: Deadline for Interconnected VoIP and Broadband Access providers.

• Date: June 30, 2002
• Requirement: Deadline for all assistance capability requirements.

• Date: November 19, 2001
• Requirement: Packet-mode communications assistance capability deadline.

• Date: March 12, 2001
• Requirement: Capacity requirements deadline for local exchange, cellular, and broadband PCS telecommunications carriers.

Enjoy your freedom as an American for two more months.