[Asterisk-Users] Legal Interception - tapping

[Alastair Maw]

Tais M. Hansen wrote:

>>I know it is possible to record calls, it will record them to a
>>directory you define on the server. But are you required to provide
>>archives/recordings of the calls or permit real-time tapping?
> 
> You should ask some kind of justice department.
> 
> We did here in Denmark and were told that there currently wasn't officially 
> defined a set of rules about phonetapping but that we should be able to do so 
> if legally requested by law enforcement. These rules will be clearly defined 
> eventually when the government figures out their version of the 
> anti-terror-package.

We're required by ICSTIS to record any live entertainment services that 
run over our gear. Unfortunately they've not been very helpful regarding 
requirements - there's merely a single-page document that mentions 
things like "timestamping recordings every 1/2 second to ensure they 
haven't been tampered with". That doesn't make much sense to me, even in 
an analogue world, let alone a digital one. FWIW, they require real-time 
monitoring capability (max 3 second delay) and archives for I think six 
months (the document doesn't actually specify, would you believe).

If anyone has any more information about this, or could point me towards 
any, I'd be most grateful - ICSTIS' "consultant" doesn't seem to reply 
very promptly (if at all) to his e-mails.

Regarding the real-time monitoring, it'd be great if we could develop an 
extension to zapbarge/scan that let you tap in the callerid of the 
person you're wanting to monitor. It's a little hard to find things in a 
120 channel bank sometimes...

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Alastair Maw <al.maw at mxtelecom.com>
MX Telecom - Systems Analyst
http://www.mxtelecom.com