The unfortunate, if not surprising, news story making the rounds today is
that the feds in the US are looking to pass new laws to legally require a
wiretap backdoor in every kind of internet communication offering. Yes, you
read that right. If there's any way to communicate online, the US government
is demanding the right to be able to wiretap it. Any company that doesn't
comply will face fines. This despite the long history of the US government
massively abusing its wiretapping privileges repeatedly throughout history.

And, yes, this would supposedly apply to non-US communications services as
well:

Foreign-based providers that do business inside the United States must
install a domestic office capable of performing intercepts.
Yeah, that'll go over well. It's difficult to see how this is any different
than foreign governments demanding access to others' communications as well.
It's pretty ridiculous for President Obama to talk about open internet
principles to the UN, while cooking this up at the same time.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...ications.shtml

Double speak is alive and well in the white house.

Best Regards
Tom.