The statutes, the orders, the guides.
The primary sources, hosted in full. Each one has a page that says what it is, what it requires and who it reaches — so you can read the summary in two minutes and the document when you need it.
The laws that create the obligation.
The federal laws that create the obligation and the process — CALEA, the Wiretap Act, ECPA, FISA and its amendments.
CALEA Act of 1994
What CALEA (1994) requires, section by section — definitions, capability, security, safe harbor, enforcement — with the full text to download.
ECPA (1986)
What ECPA did: extended the Wiretap Act to electronic communications and created the Pen Register Act and the Stored Communications Act — the tiers of process.
The Wiretap Act (1968)
The 1968 statute behind every Title III order: a general prohibition on intercepting communications, with a court-supervised exception on probable cause.
FISA (1978)
What FISA authorizes — foreign-intelligence surveillance of foreign powers and their agents under the FISA court — and what a FISA order means for a carrier.
USA PATRIOT Act (2001)
What the USA PATRIOT Act changed for communications providers: FISA, the pen-register statute, the Stored Communications Act and emergency disclosure.
FISA Amendments Act (2008)
What the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 did: Section 702 targeting of persons outside the United States, minimization, and the directive a provider may receive.
The orders that defined compliance.
The two orders that brought broadband and VoIP inside CALEA and told them what compliance means.
CALEA Broadband Coverage Order (2005)
The 2005 FCC order that extended CALEA to facilities-based broadband and interconnected VoIP providers — what it decided, why, and what it left open.
CALEA Capability Order (2006)
The 2006 FCC order that set the May 14, 2007 deadline, permitted Trusted Third Parties, required SSI filings and monitoring reports, and settled who pays.
Guides, references and the record.
Subsentio's own guide, the lawyer-written legal summary, the fifty-state statute reference, and the Going Dark record.
State Lawful Intercept Statutes
Fifty states, fifty statutes: how state surveillance law relates to the federal scheme, which permit wiretaps and pen-traps, and what to do with a state order.
Going Dark
What Going Dark means — the gap between the authority to intercept and the ability to — and the FBI briefing and House hearing that defined the term.
Subsentio Guide to CALEA Compliance
The step-by-step guide for Subsentio customers: the procedures, staffing, policies and responsibilities that let a court-ordered intercept run correctly.
CALEA Legal Summary
A lawyer-written summary of CALEA and its regulations: who is covered, capability and security requirements, safe harbor, the FCC orders, choosing a TTP.
White papers and commentary.
Subsentio's own white papers — the EU v. the PATRIOT Act, what ISPs should do when their networks become crime scenes, international law-enforcement assistance mandates, the UK's data retention law and requests for emails stored abroad — and a decade of government-affairs commentary.