FBI Pulls Open Net For Wiretapping

Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone calls are 
being made over the Internet, posing legal and technical hurdles for 
the FBI as it seeks to prevent the emerging services from becoming a 
safe haven for criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants regulators to 
affirm that such services fall under a 1994 law requiring phone 
companies to build in surveillance capabilities. It also is pushing 
the industry to create technical standards to make wiretapping easier 
and cheaper. But privacy advocates fear that because online 
eavesdropping technology is crude, tapping into the data for voice 
means getting more than what a court ordered - including possibly 
e-mail and other digital communications. Service operators also 
question who should pay.

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