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                Date: 2000-01-21
                 
                 
                ENFOPOL a la Americaine
                
                 
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      Zugriffe ohne Gerichtsbeschluss auf E-Mails und Verbindungsdaten  
von Handys, das wollen die gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden  - "Sie  
nehmen was sie kriegen können, auch wenn es nicht in den  
gesetzen explizit festgeschrieben steht" sgat die Anwältin der  
Electronic Frontier Foundation, die zusammen mit EPIC und ACLU  
gegen das Abhörgesetz klagt.  
 
 
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Declan McCullagh  
 
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.  
 
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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.  
 
"They want to get as much information as they can, even though it's  
not explicitly stated in the law," says Deborah Pierce, an attorney for  
the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  
 
The legal tussle involves a debate only a lawyer could love: how easy  
it should be to spy on different types of communications, such as the  
numbers dialed as part of a phone call rather than the conversation  
itself.  
 
The Justice Department, which is defending the lawsuit on behalf of  
the FCC, says that packet communications, such as the Internet,  
should be open for police eavesdropping. 
 
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33810,00.html
                   
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published on: 2000-01-21 
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