eSchool News online – Coalition: Don’t send education $7 billion in wiretapping costs

Critical of a new federal order that could cost colleges and universities an estimated $7 billion to renovate their existing computer networks so law enforcement officials could conduct remote wiretaps, a coalition of university presidents, lobbyists, and other education stakeholders on Nov. 15 filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting an exemption.

Speaks for itself. I’d only sputter like a wee Tasmanian devil.