John Leyden at The Register (UK, Jan 16, 2008, US chief spook pushes electronic dragnet policy) reports:
US cyber-security policies may give US intelligence agencies access to any email, file transfer or web search.
The proposals from National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, which have entered into a draft of US Cyber-Security Policy, would legitimise data trawling on a scale that would make the current controversy about warrantless wiretapping seem like much ado about nothing....
...Intelligence agencies have long angled for this kind of surveillance ability. The infrastructure and computing power needed to tap into Americans' email and web search history may already exist....
For some background, see Reason's interview with NSA whistleblower Russell Tice (Jan 13, 2006, Inside the Puzzle Palace), a good post on the CannonFire Blog (July 31, 2007, Data mining, the NSA, DOJ corruption and impeachment), UPI's Feb 14, 2006 story Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger, and two stories on SpamDailyNews (April 08, 2006, Whistleblower outs NSA's secret spy room at AT T; and April 07, 2006, EFF: AT T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA) about AT&T forwarding all internet traffic to the NSA.
No comments:
Post a Comment