Even More Government Spying on the Internet

Even More Government Spying on the Internet
by Ian Mosley
Everyone’s going paperless these days–banks, utilities, newspapers…. everyone’s doing it all online. Now federal police agencies want to take it a step further–paperless warrants (or rather “requests” to your ISP) to spy on your Internet activity.
An article on CNET reports: “Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They’re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those of Internet and e-mail providers so requests can be sent and received electronically. CNET has reviewed a survey scheduled to be released at a federal task force meeting on Thursday, which says that law enforcement agencies are virtually unanimous in calling for such an interface to be created. Eighty-nine percent of police surveyed, it says, want to be able to exchange legal process requests and responses to legal process through an encrypted, police-only nationwide computer network. The survey, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, is part of a broader push from law enforcement agencies to alter the ground rules of online investigations.”
For “alter the ground rules” read “re-shred the remaining bits of the Constitution left over from the Bush administration”. (more…)































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