---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:15:15 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Cato forum on wiretapping and Digital Telephony (3/24/97) [I find that Cato's forums are always worth attending. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:15:21 -0500 (EST) From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns@cato.org> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: a cato forum Declan, could you post this to fightcensorship or otherwise forward it around? ******************************************************************** This forum will be held at noon on March 24 at the Cato Institute at 1000 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washington, DC. To register, please call Heather Antilla at 202.842.3490 or email to hantila@cato.org. ******************************************************************** Wiretapping in the Digital Age: Reassessing CALEA Barry Steinhardt Alan McDonald ACLU FBI Jim Dempsey Albert Gidari Center for Democracy and Technology Perkins Coie CALEA, the "Communications Assistance in Law Enforcement Act," requires phone companies to retrofit their networks to facilitate wiretapping by law enforcement. Are laws like CALEA appropriate for our constitutional republic, or are the economic costs and dangers to privacy too great? Should Congress have delegated to the FBI so much power to implement CALEA? Have the FBI's demands under the statute been reasonable? Solveig Bernstein, Esq. (202) 789-5274 (202) 842-3490 (fax) Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies Cato Institute 1000 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001