New regulations likely to be proposed by the State Department next year may follow guidelines being drafted by the UN and the OECD, a rich-country club, that will advise companies on how best to tracetheorigin of their materials.
The proposals to be brought forward would address the fact the police - who can already tell when, where and who made a mobile phone call or sent a text message - cannot always tracetheorigin of an email, a message sent via instant messaging or a phone call made over the internet.