FBI renews broad Internet surveillance push | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Director Robert Mueller tells Congress that police are 'increasingly unable' to bring criminals to justice because rapid advances in technology thwart surveillance. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Politics and Law.

 

The FBI is renewing its request for new Internet surveillance laws, saying technological advances hinder surveillance and warning that companies should be required to build in backdoors for police.

 

An internal FBI strategy document from 2007 recently posted by Cryptome.org refers to "proposed amendments" to CALEA that would codify the authority of police to "process a subject's communications traffic, including IP/packet-based communications."

 

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57518265-38/fbi-renews-broad-internet-surveillance-push/