FC: Privacy groups ask court to trash wiretapping regs

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33810,00.html

                       Wiretapping Unwarranted?
                       by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

                       3:00 a.m. 21.Jan.2000 PST
                       WASHINGTON -- US privacy groups have
                       asked an appeals court to overturn
                       federal regulations that they say will let
                       cops track Web browsing and email
                       without a warrant.

                       The civil liberties organizations say the
                       US Circuit Court of Appeals for the
                       District of Columbia should
                       unceremoniously trash the
                       privacy-invading rules drafted by the
                       Federal Communications Commission.

                       In a 35-page brief filed Thursday, the
                       groups said that the FCC's August 1999
                       response to a 1994 wiretap law goes too
                       far, giving police too much surveillance
                       authority and the ability to track mobile
                       phone customers.

                       [...]


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