Thread: FBI wants flat-out totalitarian spying on the internet

FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now

CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

by Declan McCullagh
C|NET News

The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.

In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone system to the Internet has made it far more difficult for agents to wiretap Americans suspected of illegal activities, CNET has learned.

The FBI general counsel's office has drafted a proposed law that the bureau claims is the best solution: requiring that social-networking Web sites and providers of VoIP, instant messaging, and Web e-mail alter their code to ensure their products are wiretap-friendly.

"If you create a service, product, or app that allows a user to communicate, you get the privilege of adding that extra coding," an industry representative who has reviewed the FBI's draft legislation told CNET. The requirements apply only if a threshold of a certain number of users is exceeded, according to a second industry representative briefed on it.

The FBI's proposal would amend a 1994 law, called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, that currently applies only to telecommunications providers, not Web companies. The Federal Communications Commission extended CALEA in 2004 to apply to broadband networks.

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The FBI, an agency already known for abusing its authority and
violating the rights of American citizens, now wants flat-out
totalitarian spying on the internet.

They want to force companies like Google, Facebook, and even Skype
and X-Box Live to write backdoors into their code for government
surveillance. The kind of backdoor codes that hackers LOVE.

Of course, their buddies over at the NSA are about to have a shiny
new data center out in the middle of Utah, so I guess they'll have
something to do as well.

Total Information Awareness is alive and well...

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The Secret Government: FBI wants flat-out totalitarian spying on the internet

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