Podcasts, Policy and Law, and EDUCAUSE_ANNUAL

The 2007 Policy Conference kicked off with a top-ten style list of Policy Issues currently facing higher education. This entertaining and insightful list was compiled and delivered by Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell University. What's past is prologue. As we look ahead to the policy questions facing the Internet today and tomorrow, it's useful to recall what we've seen over the past 12 months. This speech, entitled the Year In Review, runs approximately 33 minutes.

In this 48-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from Rodney Petersen and Wendy Wigen in a session entitled Policing the Internet: Higher Education Law and Policy. They discuss recent government initiatives and emerging legal and policy issues in higher education, such as the USA PATRIOT Act, CALEA, and the European Union Data Directive.

An archived recording of the August 1 EDUCAUSE Web seminar addressing CALEA compliance for higher education is now available. Hear from key speakers, including:

• Matt Brill—Lead attorney for ACE and EDUCAUSE in our challenge to the FCC CALEA order
• Terry Hartle—Senior Vice President of ACE for Government Relations
• Steve Rosen—University Counsel for the University of California
• Steve Worona—Moderator, EDUCAUSE Director of Policy and Networking Programs

For background information, access a robust collection of CALEA resources.

From - CALEA: What Could It Mean for Your Network?

Presented by:

 Douglas Carlson, Executive Director, Communications and Computing Services, New York University

 Wendy Wigen, Policy Analyst, EDUCAUSE

Requirements:

1. Service provider would administer – turn on “lawful intercept” feature of switch, controls access function and delivery function – “securely deliver information to Law Enforcement Agency”
2. Universities will turn on, maintain and turn off communications intercept at the request of law enforcement, and send all data to Law Enforcement Agency in real time over VPN or leased line.
3. Training and background checks of involved employees
4. Establishment of 24/7 contact
1. Contact person needs to be a citizen so LEA can hold that person accountable in court if something goes wrong.
5. Creation and documentation of processes
6. Filing documentation and testifying as to CALEA compliance
7. Campus would pay for all aspects included in above, with the possible exception of a leased line to LEA.

Other Considerations:

1. University does not have to decrypt or decompress data.
2. All communication needs to be forwarded, IM email etc. - Anything over IP
3. Law Enforcement may ask for all communications from:
1. an IP address
2.  AN INDIVIDUAL.
4. Surveillance intra-campus – yes.

Other questions – is E 911 now extended to university networks?