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              | Date: 1998-12-21 
 
 CALEA: Milliarden fuer den Lauschangriff-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.-
 
 Was sich lauschwütige Eurocops unter dem Titel ENFOPOL wünschen,
 heisst für die US-Behörden CALEA: Interfaces für den flächendeckenden
 Lauschangriff auf die mobile Telephonie. Die geschätzten Kosten
 betragen fünf bis zehn Milliarden Dollar, als Zahlmeister sind
 selbverständlich die Kunden vorgesehen.
 
 
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 George Leopold
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 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently reviewing
 implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement
 Act (Calea) to clarify technical requirements. Wireless
 telecommunications and privacy groups have told the Commission the FBI
 is exceeding congressional authority by seeking greater surveillance
 capabilities under Calea.
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 "The issue before [the FCC] is whether law enforcement will be able to
 use Calea as a back-door means to expand existing wiretap capabilities
 and whether consumers in their monthly bills will shoulder the
 multibillion dollar costs of that expansion," Thomas Wheeler,
 president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association,
 argued.
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 The group estimated that expanded wiretapping capabilities sought by
 the FBI would shift the $5 billion to $10 billion cost of implementing
 the added surveillance features to consumers.
 
 Wheeler said the FBI has refused to release cost data on implementing
 Calea. Nevertheless, he predicted the cost of the wiretap law will be
 10 to 20 times more than the Congress authorized to be spent.
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 In comments to the FCC on the Calea review, the Telecommunications
 Industry Association (TIA; Arlington, Va.) said it backed the agency's
 decision to limit its review of the standard to 11 specific
 modifications proposed by the FBI and the Center for Democracy and
 Technology, a Washington-based privacy group. The group views the
 standard as providing law enforcement with too much information while
 the FBI views it as providing too little.
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 The digital wiretap law, enacted by Congress in 1994, is designed to
 allow law-enforcement agencies to continue to conduct electronic
 surveillance in the wake of rapid advances in telecommunications
 technology. Calea requires telecommunications carriers to ensure their
 equipment, facilities and services will meet the assistance-capability
 requirements specified under the law.
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 full text
 http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19981217S0011
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 published on: 1998-12-21
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