FC: FBI, teleco strike surveillance agreement

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

> From: C12h16n2 () aol com
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:40:31 EDT
> To: declan () well com
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-FBI-Wiretap.html
>
> September 14, 1999
>
>          Filed at 7:49 p.m. EDT
>
>          By The Associated Press
>
>          WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI reached a first-of-its-kind agreement
>          enabling telecommunications companies to use computer software made
>          by Nortel Networks to assist law enforcement agencies in conducting
>          lawfully authorized wiretapping. 
>
>          The agreement calls for Nortel, a major supplier of 
> telecommunications
>          equipment, to provide certain software to its carrier customers. 
> Nortel
>          will waive the license fees. 
>
>          The 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
>          authorized $500 million for the purpose of reimbursing the
>          telecommunications industry for its costs in cooperating with law
>          enforcement agencies in wiretapping. 
>
>          ``Carriers can now begin taking steps to correct technological
>          impediments within their networks that currently prevent law 
> enforcement
>          from being able to carry out court-ordered electronic surveillance
>          directed at suspected criminals and terrorists,'' Attorney General 
> Janet
>          Reno said in a statement. 


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