Oasis Forms "Lawful Intercept" XML Committee

An anonymous reader writes "Oasis has announced the formation of the Lawful Intercept XML Technical Committee. The announcement refers to it as a "universal global framework for supporting rapid discovery and sharing of suspected criminal and terrorist evidence by law enforcement agencies." It's not really clear if this is supposed to aid in information exchange about suspicious activities/individuals, or 'intercepting' in the sense of eavesdropping, or what exactly."

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Hellkitten]

Real translation:

Telecoms, ISP-s etc in some countries are required by law to intercept data when the police asks them to (with a warrant). Since the police isn't that bright we'll make a standard format to provide this information in to make it easier for them

Only for use between agencies, not spying

[mghiggins]

After reading the announcement and a couple of the links off it, this sounds more like an XML standard that law enforcement agencies and legal departments can use to send each other information during an investigation - not something they'd foist on the general public to make it easier for government to spy on us.