CDT, Others Call Internet Wiretapping Mandates Unlawful - CDT and a broad coalition of public interest, academic and business groups today again urged a federal appeals court to overturn a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling requiring that broadband Internet and interconnected voice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services be designed to make government wiretapping easier. The brief stressed that the government has never shown that there is a problem to be solved by extending the "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" to the Internet, and that Congress explicitly excluded the Internet from the wiretapping design mandate. March 14, 2006
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