IP: TMI sets precedent with U.S. deal: Telecom firm agrees to wiretaps -- but not on Canadians [JUST AMERICANS? djf]

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNewsTechnology/sept13_tmisatellite.html
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> TMI sets precedent with U.S. deal
> Wins security clearance: Telecom firm agrees to wiretaps -- but not on
> Canadians
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> By PETER MORTON
> The Financial Post
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>   WASHINGTON - A tiny Canadian satellite communications company will be the
> first foreign firm to receive top security approval from the FBI to operate a
> telecommunications business in the United States after agreeing to allow U.S.
> security agencies to wiretap its service.
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>   The precedent-setting deal, to be signed today, will soon allow TMI
> Communications Inc. to offer satellite telecommunications services in the U.S.
> market, Larry Boisvert, TMI's chief executive, confirmed in an interview.
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>   "If you want to provide telecommunications in the U.S. you have to be
> prepared to meet the security required as determined by the FBI and the
> Department of Justice," Mr. Boisvert said.
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>   Even though it will operate the service from Canada, TMI agreed to put a
> digital switch in the United States that would give FBI and other U.S. 
> security
> agencies the ability to listen in on satellite calls or copy data, such as
> financial records, as required by new federal laws that will force all U.S.
> mobile communications companies to do the same by next June.
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