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This chapter considers the technical evolution of communications interception. In addition to providing crucial technical background to the topic, it explains in detail the technological reasons that led to the emergence of RIPA and CALEA, as well as the structural changes that the wiretapping of digital communications posed for the actors involved in it. After a brief description of the technology of analog wiretapping, there will unfold an account of the barriers to communications interception posed by the digitization of telecommunications. Finally, changes in communications interception in the digital telecommunications environment—as facilitated by RIPA and CALEA—will be outlined and discussed. |
