Lawful Interception in the world...

Wed Feb 12 10:42:34 UTC 2003

At 13:34 11/02/2003, Pascal Gloor wrote:

>I'm trying to collect some informations on Lawfull Interception over the
>world...
>Does any country in the world require such things ?
Pascal,

** I am not a lawyer and my opinions are my own **

There is some major work going on around the world in multiple legal 
constituencies on this issue.

In Europe there is currently some work underway by ETSI 
http://www.etsi.org/ to define a common technical infrastructure and 
standard for lawful interception. The idea is that ISP's then have a common 
requirement for implementing technical solutions. I believe the numbers are 
EG 201 781, ES 201 158 and ES 201 671.

The Dutch government has moved ahead of this standard and has implemented 
TIIT http://www.nlip.nl/nl/nao/aftappen/main/docs.html , which is currently 
on 0.2.0

Mostly the standards relate to implementing a technical solution within an 
ISP to capture packets and pass them to the relevant legal authority.

I hope this helps?

Joe 