It’s not often we get to use the phrase “gobbledygook” on this blog, but we’ll take every chance we can get.
That’s precisely what an appeals court judge called the government’s argument for new regulations requiring internet companies to make it easier to wiretap broadband services (including phone calls) over the Internet.
The FCC is using a 1994 law as the basis for the bill, a law which was originally penned in 1994 to cover wireless phones. “Same thing” says the FCC. “Not so” says the court.
US Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards to an FCC lawyer:
“When you go back to the office, have a big chuckle. I’m not missing this. This is ridiculous. Counsel!”
The full story can be found here in this Reuters report.
In related but slightly more cheerful privacy news, new technologies are allowing disabled voters a little more privacy at the polls. Read about it now.
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