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Date: 2001-12-19
US: FISA wird uns ficken-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- folgende Novellierung des Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] sieht penetrierende Notfallmaß/nahmen für internationalen Datenverkehr vor. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Just weeks after passage of comprehensive anti-terrorism legislation, Congress continues to tinker with the laws governing electronic monitoring. An appropriations bill awaiting the President's signature provides for increased governmental surveillance capabilities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), increasing the authorities recently broadened by the USA PATRIOT Act passed in October (see EPIC Alert 8.21). H.R. 2883 expands "roving wiretap" authority by amending the location provision in FISA, which currently requires agents to identify the location of the instrument to be monitored. The amendment requires identification of location only "if known." Roving wiretap authority under FISA was established by the USA PATRIOT Act to allow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to issue generic orders to any communications provider, thereby permitting the government to track the communications of a specific individual carried over a variety of sources. The new amendment permits the FISC to issue orders permitting government surveillance of communications where neither the provider nor the location of the communication device is specified. Under current law, the Attorney General may authorize electronic surveillance or a search without a court order in an emergency. In such instances, the government must present a formal application to the FISC within 24 hours of the Attorney General's authorization. The new legislation extends the time in which the government must present a formal order to 72 hours. It also contains various technical amendments to the USA PATRIOT Act. The bill, which was the result of a House-Senate conference, specifies four priority areas in the nation's intelligence capabilities: (1) revitalizing the National Security Agency; (2) correcting deficiencies in human intelligence; (3) addressing the imbalance between intelligence collection and analysis; and (4) rebuilding a robust research and development program. H.R. 2883, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, is available at: http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/hr2883.html EPIC's Wiretap Page: http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/ -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2001-12-19 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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