There is a great discussion over on Slate about how the FBI sees it’s ability to listen in via tapping phones as “going dark”. Why use a landline or a cell phone when you can use your webcam to orchestrate your criminal enterprises?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_weissmann_fbi_wants_real_time_gmail_dropbox_spying_power.html
The blog suggests that the FBI is interested in extending CALEA, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, to cover Gmail, Google Voice, and other cloud services. This isn’t a new thing exactly. Law enforcement has been working for some time now to figure out how to apply CALEA to VoIP, for example. It was only a matter of time before Instant Messaging fell under that same category.
Kids today prefer texting to talking anyway.
