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Discuss “Listening In”

Students who already think the cost of college tuition is high may face paying at least hundreds of dollars more if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has its way.

Thanks to a new set of rules that monitor online communication, colleges and universities may face having to revamp their existing online systems, paying millions of dollars to do so. The American Council on Education (ACE) filed an appeal with the circuit court last week against the new rules that Carnegie Mellon Chief Information Officer Joel Smith referred to as ?definitely an overkill.?

Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994, telephone companies must pay to maintain their systems so that federal agents can easily obtain wiretaps....

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