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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