IP: Documents Show FBI Web Surveillance

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 18:51:42 -0400
>From: Ian Hopper <ihopper@ap.org>
>To: dave@farber.net
>Subject: For IP
>
>Dave, FYI:
>
>Documents Show FBI Web Surveillance
>
>By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press Writer
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI (news - web sites) has used Internet
>eavesdropping tools to track fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists,
>computer hackers and suspected foreign intelligence agents, documents
>show.
>
>The documents, obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of
>Information Act, also detail how the FBI scurried last year to prove it
>wasn't ``randomly looking at everyone's e-mail'' once its Web
>surveillance practices came under attack.
>
>The FBI records show the agency used its controversial Carnivore system
>13 times between October 1999 and August 2000 to monitor Internet
>communications, and a similar device, Etherpeek, another 11 times.
>
>...
>
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010504/pl/internet_eavesdropping_1.html



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