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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board activities
Abstract
The board considers technical and policy issues pertaining to computer science, telecommunications, and associated technologies. Functions of the board include the following: providing a base of expertise for these fields in NRC, monitoring and promoting health of these fields, initiating studies of these fields as critical resources and sources of national economic strength, responding to requests for advice, and fostering interaction among the technologies and the other pure and applied science and technology. This document describes its major accomplishments, current programs, other sponsored activities, cooperative ventures, and plans and prospects.
The new Protect America Act permits warrantless foreign-intelligence wire-trapping whenever one end of the communication is believed to be outside the US. The US systems for foreign intelligence surveillance located outside the US minimize access to the traffic of US persons on the grounds of their location. The new act can lead to surveillance on an unprecedented scale that will inevitably intercept some purely domestic communications. It can lead to some serious security risks including the risk of exploitation of the system by unauthorized users, danger of criminal misuse by trusted insiders, and risk of misuse by government agents. The new systems is likely to operate differently from earlier wiretrapping regimes and will use new technologies for purposes of targeting wiretraps. It requires an appropriate oversight by publicly accountable bodies and while the details might remain closed, there should be a publicly known system for handling situations when mistakes are made.
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