Report: White House Wants To Give Law Enforcement Easier Access To Internet, E-mail Wiretaps

[sonomak]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/27/ap/tech/main6904274.shtml

Report: US Would Make Internet Wiretaps Easier
Report: White House Wants To Give Law Enforcers Easier Access To Internet, E-mail Wiretaps

WASHINGTON (AP) - Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries, The New York Times reported Monday.

The newspaper said the White House plans to submit a bill next year that would require all online services that enable communications to be technically equipped to comply with a wiretap order. That would include providers of encrypted e-mail, such as BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook and direct communication services like Skype.

Federal law enforcement and national security officials say new the regulations are needed because terrorists and criminals are increasingly giving up their phones to communicate online....

[truebrit71]

1. ..also in LBN...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4554641&mesg_id=4554641

[VMI Dem]

2. I'm fucking shocked.

[ixion]

3. *sigh*

:puke:

This sh*t is getting old.

[annabanana]

4. Curious.. are **WARRANTS** under discussion in any of this?

Or are they so, you know, 18th Century?

[piratefish08]

5. we will NEVER regain the privacy that Bush and Co. stole.

and evidently it is only going to get worse.

[Loge23]

6. ...guess we're all guilty

Just can't trust the American people.
What a fuckin' joke this country has become.

[RKP5637]

11. Yeah, now we're guilty by default because we're American, like most in the

country are sitting around plotting. All measures like this do is drive it further underground. We've become a bunch of scared rabbits running around, as you said; "What a fuckin' joke this country has become."

[Odin2005]

7. Who actually thinks governments voluntarily RETURN any power they take?

[Ian David]

8. NPR said this would be to make it physically possible for them to comply with warrants. n/t

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

sigh

[OnyxCollie]

10. K&R. nt

[The Northerner]

12. K&R

[WinkyDink]

13. Every day brings me closer to the Trojan Horse notion. So sue me.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. I've never been more outraged.

For some reason.