National Wiretap Day

As if the mongrel police forces in America didn’t have enough civil rights abolishing capability as is, May 14th, 2007, is the deadline for ISP’s all over the nation to be compliant with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. In short, CALEA demands that all ISP’s and telephone companies provide data to law enforcement on their terms, using their data collection methods to provide email, Web browsing histories and other online activity reports on legal demand, as quickly as possible. The law forces your ISP to be their spy. Though the act does not change standards for legal use of wiretaps, it is notable that when the telephone compliance was finished in 2002, court-ordered surveillance nearly doubled from 2,586 applications granted in 2002, to 4,015 granted in 2006.

When you make it easier to spy, than to do actual police work - you can guess the results.