Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: FBI TO REQUIRE ISPS TO RECONFIGURE E-MAIL SYSTEMS
> PRIVACY: FBI TO REQUIRE ISPS TO RECONFIGURE E-MAIL SYSTEMS
> The FBI is in the process of finalizing technical guidelines that
would
> require all Internet service providers to reconfigure their e-mail
> systems so they could be more easily accessible to law enforcers.
The
> move, to be completed over the next two months, would cause ISPs to
act
> as phone companies do to comply with a 1994 digital-wiretapping law.
> "They are in the process of developing a very detailed set of
standards
> for how to make packet data" available to the FBI, said Stewart
Baker,
> an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson who was formerly the chief counsel
to
> the National Security Agency.
>
> Source: National Journal's Technology Daily / Politech
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02671.html
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