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carrying out
* interception orders in order to fight organized crime and for the
* protection of national security.
*
* Interception of telecommunications should reach all the way down
* to the design stage of the equipment.
*
* The next generation of satellite-based telecommunications systems
* should be able to "tag" each individual subscriber in view of a
* possibly necessary surveillance activity. All the new systems have
* to have the capability to place all individuals under surveillance.
*
HA Unfortunately, initial contacts with various consortia...has met with
HA the most diverse reactions, ranging from great willingness to
HA cooperate on the one hand, to an almost total refusal even to discuss
HA the question.
*
* It is very urgent for governments and/or legislative institutions to
* make the new consortia aware of their duties. The government will
* also have to create new regulations for international cooperation
* so that the necessary surveillance will be able to operate.


# "Made in America?", Wired Magazine, June 1997
#
# Japan's Justice Ministry is rallying support for an anticrime bill that
# would give police extensive wiretap powers---a major departure given the
# country's constitutional guarantees for "secrecy of any means of communi-
# cations." According to activist Toshimaru Ogura, Japanese cops are
# modeling their proposals on US wiretap law, specifically the 1994
# Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The NSA helped
# sculpt CALEA's language, which begs the question: Is Japan's wiretap bill
# another one of the NSA's covert operations?


* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
* http://www.aci.net


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