Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act. 1994 legislation that gives law enforcement agencies the right to place wiretaps on new digital wireless networks. CALEA also requires wireless and wireline carriers to make their digital networks able to support law enforcement eavesdropping and wiretapping equipment and activities.
Enacted in October 1994, CALEA is a law defining the statutory obligation of telecommunications carriers to assist law enforcement in executing electronic surveillance.
The Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act that allows law enforcement officials to tap phone and record phone calls
A 1994 act that requires telecommunications services to provide wiretapping access. The Act specifically excludes information services, so the question is whether VoIP is a telecommunications service, thus covered by the Act, or an information service, thus exempted. VoIP providers are receiving pressure to comply with the Act.
