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September 28, 2010

White House Seeks Greater Power to Wiretap Online Communications
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In technology news, the Obama administration is pushing Congress to make
it easier for federal authorities to wiretap online communications
including emails, Facebook postings and internet phone calls. The New
York Times reports officials want Congress to require all services that
enable online communications to be technically capable of complying if
served with a wiretap order in order to give the federal government the
ability to intercept and unscramble any encrypted message sent over the
internet.



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