WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, is considering introducing legislation that would require Internet service providers to rig their systems to make it easier for local, state and federal law enforcement to wiretap Internet traffic.
The bill, still in the development stage, aims to expand the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which requires telephone companies to engineer their infrastructure so law enforcement can easily do a wiretap, when given court approval.
This new proposal, said Mike Dawson, DeWine's communications director, would simply bring that requirement up to date for technology that wasn't established in 1994 — including Voice Over Internet Protocol, by which people converse over the Internet as if on the phone.
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