[privacy] FBI Turns to Broad New Wiretap Method

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via C|Net News.

[snip]

The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique
that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been
disclosed.

Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents
conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of
thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to
current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for
names, e-mail addresses or keywords.

Such a technique is broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI's
Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns
similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the
National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that
have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's
legally permissible.

Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach.

[snip]

More:
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6154457.html

- - ferg

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