CALEA Culpa

摘要

It's two minutes to midnight for meeting the CALEA J-standard deadline, and at least two major vendors won't have compliant software ready. Now what? The saga started in October 1994, when Congress passed CALEA so that law-enforcement agencies could conduct electronic surveillance in the digital-telecommunications environment. The ensuing five years have seen heated debates between the wireless industry, the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FCC over what wireless-service providers must do and when. So it's no surprise that as the June 30, 2000 deadline for complying with the J-STD-025 (the J-standard) looms, CALEA has flared up again.