April 23, 2004

Colleges See High Costs in Letting Government Tap 'Internet Telephones'

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

If federal law-enforcement officials get their way, colleges may have to spend millions of dollars to re-engineer their computer networks so federal agents can eavesdrop on Internet-based voice conversations, higher-education officials say.

Thirteen college and library groups urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to reject giving agents electronic-surveillance authority that would require such re-engineering. The organizations' comments came in a 26-page response to a

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