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Thursday 07 April 2011 |
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US Says
It Would
Donate
Costa
Rica
Wiretapping
Equipment
The call
interception
(wiretapping)
centre
is ready
to go,
missing
only a
budget
to
operate.
As such,
U.S.
Ambassador
to Costa
Rica,
Anne
Andrew,
said on
Wednesday
that her
government
would
donate
the
specialized
equipment
because
of the
awareness
of the
importance
of the
tool
(wiretap)
in the
fight
against
organized
crime
and drug
trafficking.
The
facility
would
consolidate
telephone
calls by
law
enforcement
agencies
in one
central
location,
which
would be
located
in San
Joaquín
de
Heredia.
The
wiretapping
centre
for many
is a
positive
and
helpful
tool,
however,
for some
there is
concern
of a
clear
policy
and the
lack of
oversight
of the
program
and are
calling
for
greater
transparency
and an
internal
audit to
avoid
potential
abuse
and the
invasion
of
privacy,
a
problem
that has
happened
in the
past.
Telephone
tapping
(also
wire
tapping
or
wiretapping)
is the
monitoring
of
telephone
and
Internet
conversations
by a
third
party,
often by
covert
means.
The wire
tap
received
its name
because,
historically,
the
monitoring
connection
was an
actual
electrical
tap on
the
telephone
line.
Legal
wiretapping
by a
government
agency
is also
called
lawful
interception.
Passive
wiretapping
monitors
or
records
the
traffic,
while
active
wiretapping
alters
or
otherwise
affects
it.
Telephone
tapping
is
officially
strictly
controlled
in many
countries
to
safeguard
a
person's
privacy;
this is
the case
in all
developed
democracies.
In
theory,
telephone
tapping
often
needs to
be
authorized
by a
court,
and is,
again in
theory,
normally
only
approved
when
evidence
shows it
is not
possible
to
detect
criminal
or
subversive
activity
in less
intrusive
ways;
often
the law
and
regulations
require
that the
crime
investigated
must be
at least
of a
certain
severity.
In many
jurisdictions
however,
permission
for
telephone
tapping
is
easily
obtained
on a
routine
basis
without
further
investigation
by the
court or
other
entity
granting
such
permission.
Illegal
or
unauthorized
telephone
tapping
is often
a
criminal
offense.
However,
in
certain
jurisdictions
such as
Germany,
courts
will
accept
illegally
recorded
phone
calls
without
the
other
party's
consent
as
evidence,
but the
unauthorized
telephone
tapping
will be
avenged
too.
Webtapping.
Though
the
practice
is more
closely
analogous
to call
tracing,
logging
the IP
addresses
of users
that
access
certain
websites
is
commonly
called "Webtapping".
Webtapping
is used
to
monitor
websites
that
presumably
contain
dangerous
or
sensitive
materials,
and the
people
that
access
them.
Though
it is
allowed
by the
US
PATRIOT
Act, it
is
considered
by many
a
questionable
practice,
if not
an
all-out
violation
of civil
liberties.
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