-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Making Universities Pay for Government Surveillance Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:09:29 -0400 From: Daniel Solove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Declan, I just blogged about a story that might of interest to your readers on my new blog, Concurring Opinions, http://www.concurringopinions.com, where I blog about information privacy law issues. The story involves the expansion of the CALEA to require universities, libraries, and others to build in technologies to their telecommunication services that will facilitate law enforcement surveillance. The cost is staggering, and I argue in my blog post that the cost should not be borne by the universities: http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/making_universi_1.html Daniel J. Solove Associate Professor of Law George Washington University Law School Website: http://www.danielsolove.com Blog: http://www.concurringopinions.com _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
[In principle, I think I'm with Dan on this one. In reality, though, I
wonder if making universities liable for paying for their own compliance
will increase opposition to this FCC mandate (including lawsuits
challenging it) and reduce the chance of some IT person saying "Oh, yes,
it'll cost us $100 million to comply. Check, please!" Also, let's
remember that this may be an unwarranted expansion of CALEA that may be
illegal unless Congress ratifies it. --Declan]
