LE eager for Web-surveillance tools

[Badger52]

Courtesy of Homeland Security News Wire:

Private technology firms are pitching software capable of analyzing large swaths of the Internet to local law enforcement looking for ways to stop the next mass shooting or domestic terrorist event before it happens; police departments hope the software will help them detect online information from terrorists, traffickers, pedophiles, and rioters.

The advancement of technology allows for greater surveillance capabilities, and that has law enforcement agencies eager to acquire their own tools to track people who might be planning or thinking about taking out their frustrations on other citizens.

I'm sure this wouldn't be misused.

Interesting historical piece on domestic intel collection:
http://brennan.3cdn.net/b80aa0bab0b4..._jdm6b8776.pdf

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Badger52

Courtesy of Homeland Security News Wire:

I'm sure this wouldn't be misused.

An they don't need any warrants to snoop...

[JJ_BPK]

Along the same lines..

Feds Say Mobile-Phone Location Data Not ‘Constitutionally Protected’


Anyone want to invest in tin-foil??

[SF_BHT]

Take off the Tin-foil hats. It is called CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) It is very regulated and most of it you need a Court Order. Get a grip and quit thinking that LEO's abuse everything. Clinton signed it into law. It has been around for a while (18 yrs). LEO's have had these tools for a while. It is a dynamic environment and always evolving but ti evolves with check and balances. Nothing works a Hollywood depicts it on TV or the movies.

The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279, codified at 47 USC 1001-1010).

CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct electronic surveillance by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic in real-time.

[monsterhunter]

Originally Posted by SF_BHT

Take off the Tin-foil hats. It is called CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) It is very regulated and most of it you need a Court Order. Get a grip and quit thinking that LEO's abuse everything. Clinton signed it into law. It has been around for a while (18 yrs). LEO's have had these tools for a while. It is a dynamic environment and always evolving but ti evolves with check and balances. Nothing works a Hollywood depicts it on TV or the movies.

We have to go through steps in order to "ping" a cellphone. My department has to call the service provider and then fax them as to why, along with providing a report number on letterhead paper. The providers have told us to pound sound when they did not agree with the level of the emergency and added "not without a warrant."

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by monsterhunter

We have to go through steps in order to "ping" a cellphone. My department has to call the service provider and then fax them as to why, along with providing a report number on letterhead paper. The providers have told us to pound sound when they did not agree with the level of the emergency and added "not without a warrant."

You are right if there is an Emergency you can do those steps and the provider can if they wish help out as a temp solution but you still have to followup with the judges order within 48 hrs. Time lines vary depending on the location.

They do have the right to say no if they want until you have an order. Providers can get fined a lot if they do not play by the rules and the fines care out of this world if they do not comply. We have good checks and balances. It has so much oversight it frustrates LEO's but it is the LAW.

I have other agents come in several times a week and ask for help and I have to say give me the order and we can roll. Out they go until it is signed...........