The US Administration wants to intercept Internet phone calls!

The US Administration, is planning to introduce, for the first time in history, new regulations that will allow them to intercept online phone calls between users from all over the world, including users from the United States. According to a legislative project for national security, very widely commented by the media in Washington, the owners of Social Networks will be obligated to make available to the authorities the phone calls recordings of some users of their platform.

As the The New York Times specified, the White House will present to Congress the new anti terrorism legislative project next year. The new legislative project targets the interception of messages send through email or messenger, especially through social network web sites like Twitter, Facebook, Skype or MySpace. The arguments of the US security specialists refer to a new tendency of terrorists to use the internet in order to community between them. Valerie E. Caproni, expert and lawyer of the FBI said that this is not an expansion of authority, but a diversification of the interception methods targeting terrorist activities on US Soil and other countries in the World to ensure that they will be able to better keep the national and international security.

The critics of this new legislative project have quickly express their disapproval, claiming that the new law breaches every form of confidentiality and privacy of the users that are using the social networks.  James Dempsey, Vice president of the Democracy and Technology Center said that the implications of the new laws are huge ” Basically they want internet communication to be just like phone communications used to be, and they want total control over the transmissions!”

According to experts, the new legislative project will weaken the IT security and will allow hackers to hack accounts on different social networks more easily. The Times newspaper explained that the proposal of the Obama Administration includes a few principal requirements:

- each online communications provider will be obligated to own servers and special technologies used for recording and storing the messages send by users.

- each online communications provider outside the US will be obligated to own an office on US soil to be able to provide to authorities the required interceptions, if the need for that appears.

- software developers will be obligated to revamp their products so they will be able to intercept communication between users.

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