wiretapping
Webcast: Voice over IP Security
White Paper For example, the media channel is subject to a variety of attacks, including wiretapping and media manipulation. It's important to understand that VoIP is vulnerable to specific types of attacks. The signaling is also vulnerable to attack, which... [30 Jun 2008]
US cyber-spying must stop now, says judge
News The American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu) had filed suit against the government, claiming the programme "ran roughshod" over the constitutional rights of millions of Americans and ran afoul of federal wiretapping law. [18 Aug 2006]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop
News The proposed law amounts to a rewrite of the 1978 wiretapping law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa). It would also allow for blanket approval of current and future electronic surveillance programmes - a departure from the... [27 Jul 2006]
Tech group appeals ISP wiretapping diktat
News A coalition of civil liberties groups and technology companies, including Pulver.com and Sun Microsystems, is appealing a US federal court ruling that forces ISPs to create backdoors for government wiretapping. [24 Jul 2006]
Report slams US VoIP-tapping policy
News A 21-page study to be released today says it's impossible for the government to expect all products that use voice over IP, or VoIP, to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) September 2005 requirement mandating wiretapping... [13 Jun 2006]
White House divulges surveillance details
News In a sign that political pressure from other Republicans is having an effect, the White House on Wednesday disclosed details about its domestic spying programme in a secret meeting with members of a House of Representatives intelligence panel. [09 Feb 2006]
Net snooping rules challenged in court
News In an unusual twist, some of the FCC commissioners who unanimously approved the wiretapping rules have acknowledged that the agency was on shaky legal ground. Universities, libraries and technology companies are asking a federal court to block... [30 Jan 2006]
VoIP wiretapping rules to be considered
News Broadband providers and internet phone services have until spring 2007 to follow a new and complex set of rules designed to make it easier for police to seek wiretaps, federal regulators have ruled. It's clear from the Federal Communications... [27 Sep 2005]
Email snoop case can proceed, says US court
News That decision reverses a two to one vote by a three-judge panel last year that raised alarms among civil libertarians and even sparked a flurry of efforts in Congress to rewrite wiretapping law in response. [12 Aug 2005]
Homeland Security Communicatoins: No Compromise
White Paper This webcast explains who needs to protect conversations, what information needs to be protected, how information is compromised and what the consequences are, how conversations can be protected, why secure communications is crucial and a demo on... [18 Feb 2005]
Wife tracks husband's affair with spyware
News At issue in this case was whether the use of the spyware, called Spector, violated Florida's wiretapping law. Beverly O'Brien's lawyers argued that the monitoring didn't fall under the law's prohibitions and was akin to reading a stored file on her... [16 Feb 2005]
The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001: Criminal Procedure Sections
White Paper Many of the most important changes relate to the laws on wiretapping and surveillance. The antiterrorism bill recently enacted by Congress makes a number of significant changes to criminal procedure and related topics. [27 Dec 2004]
'Secret' hybrid push-to-talk and Wi-Fi mobiles on the way
News In the same document, the FCC reiterated its belief that push-to-talk calls are subject to federal wiretapping requirements. The systems being developed would not interconnect with the public switched telephone network and would therefore not be... [12 Aug 2004]
US 'right to spy' on cyberspace gets approval
News US broadband providers and internet phone services must comply with wiretapping requirements designed for the traditional phone network, the Federal Communications Commission said in a preliminary decision yesterday. [05 Aug 2004]
VoIP bashed by threat of huge taxes
News Other changes to the bill specify that it expires after three years and requires a report on whether police are encountering problems when wiretapping VoIP conversations. VoIP providers are hoping that Congress will grant them protection from state... [23 Jul 2004]
