US Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act, known for short as CALEA, mandates that gear from all telephone companies makes it easy to use a wire tap. So, these items must be CALEA compliant. The originations of this act was in 1994 and the reason was to make cellular phones compliant with wiretapping just like land lines already were. However, some things have changed since then and now cellular phones and landlines aren't the only way to communicate. Today, the Internet and VOiP make it difficult to tap certain individuals involved in activities where law enforcement officials would need to be involved and possibly need to tap their conversations. So, CALEA wants to include wire tapping for VOiP. There is some controversy over this however because people don't want to think that their phone conversations over the Internet can be tapped and then others are worried about where the bounds of privacy lie of if there are any. Besides, why would any government have the right to tap anything on the Internet in the first place? There is a lot to consider when it comes to network monitoring and lawful intercept.
However, the technology is in place and many governments and law enforcement officials are already using it. Nevertheless people are up in arms about privacy and how far the government will go. But, in this world with terrorist threats and possible terrorist attacks lawful intercept of the Internet is important and even necessary. We all want to know about a terrorist threat before there is an attack in order to thwart the terrorists. That's just one good reason why lawful intercept of the Internet should keep on and even become better. But, network forensics are not completely understand or even all that easy to implement despite the available technology. Nevertheless research continues and network monitoring will only become easier and better understood over time. Until then people will simply need to deal with the lawful intercept of the Internet and this becoming part of the CALEA act. Transparency is important in law enforcement and when we finally have that then it will be significantly easier to catch criminals. If you think about it there really is no difference of cell phones and landlines being tapped than VOiP so there really is no reason for controversy. It's just the government's way of trying to keep the country safe as well as its citizens
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