I don’t consider myself ‘uninformed’ but I have NOT heard of this Act…or that they are looking to expand it beyond any Constitutional boundary…..I got the following email from DemandProgress…while I don’t agree with much of their agenda, this is one I do agree with…WE MUST STOP THIS NOW….

I went and did a web search, the first 2 under Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act brought up the FCC then the FBI…
I did some reading, this Act has been around awhile but has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last few years…
I did a second search and added 2011 and it seems this is in Congress NOW and BEFORE THE COURT…

EMAIL:
Skype, BlackBerry, and other Internet communications services are under attack! The Obama administration and the FBI are pushing legislation that would ban online communications technologies like these unless their developers make it easy for the government to wiretap them.
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) requires telecom companies to make it possible for the government wiretap their networks. Now Obama and law enforcement want to expand CALEA to cover all online communications technologies, including peer-to-peer and social networking apps. The New York Times says the law would even include making sure the government could intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.
Click here now to tell Congress to protect services like Skype and reject the FBI’s expansion of CALEA.
Companies that want to avoid stifling regulations, and those that actually care about our privacy rights, would have to leave the U.S. That’d reduce our prominence as a technology leader, and encourage the government to devise ever more heavy-handed ways of blocking Americans from using the offending technologies. Other companies would comply by creating back-doors that could lead to more privacy violations and make the Internet more vulnerable to attack: experts say wiretap-ready technologies would be much easier to hack.
An expansion of CALEA would be a tremendous blow to a free and open Internet. Lawmakers need to reject it: Will you sign our petition demanding that they do so?
Thanks for taking a stand.

Debate Over Internet Backdoors Heats Up in Congress and in Court

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

News Update by Kevin Bankston
Two hearings tomorrow—one in court and one in Congress—will highlight the brewing debate over whether Congress should expand federal surveillance laws to force Internet communications service providers like Facebook, Google and Skype to build technical backdoors into their systems to enable government wiretapping. Read More: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/congress-and-court-long-simmering-debate-over

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act Search drew these results

White Paper on Lawful Interception of IP Networks aqsacomna.com/us/articles/LIIPWhitePaperv21%2Epdf

FCC CALEA Home page fcc.gov/calea/