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FCC Giving Veto Power to FBI Over VoIP?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-brother-is-listening dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this article, the FCC reveals that if you're using VoIP products at your own behest then you may have personal legal requirements to provide the FBI with access to information they might want to intercept. Or to put it another way, using encryption with VoIP can prevent the FBI from implementing wire taps."

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  1. no comment by rd4tech · · Score: 1, Troll

    According to the three-page document, to preserve the openness that characterizes today's Internet, "consumers are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement."

  2. Great... by OxygenPenguin · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yet another tool underneath the vast governmental race towards 1984 esque society.
    Let's all applaud Big Brother Bush for him stopping both the unique pr0n industry and now people from ::gasp:: talking over the internet without eavesdropping.

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