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over the past 30 years traditional telephones have been giving way to more high-tech tools that's been causing problems at the FBI which as a result recently formed a new surveillance unit called the DC AC the domestic communications assistance centers going to try to invent ways to eavesdrop on skype communications and Google Hangouts and the new wireless technologies to better monitor communications the FBI is also seeking cooperation from tech companies they want a new law and saying that companies this is Apple and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and so on social networking websites voice over internet phone providers have to build in back doors for government surveillance privacy advocates want to know what tools the DC AC will use and whether though partner with telecommunications companies but they acknowledge that surveillance is necessary we have bad people in the world who communicate over the Internet child pornography is a real problem for example and if the FBI or law enforcement has probable cause to to show that they're entitled to a wiretap order then by all means they should be able to do that the Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to file a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on how the DC AC operates but it will likely take a few years to learn any specifics in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News