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FBI uses covert email surveillance system
News The FBI has reportedly justified the use of this technology as simply a more efficient means of carrying out surveillance. Trawling communications data for key information is reminiscent of the international Echelon surveillance system that the US...
[July 12, 2000, 10:23]
Government to build new email and surfing surveillance centre
News MI5 already has the power to monitor all voice telephone communications via the Echelon global surveillance network. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special A new centre for monitoring email and Internet communications is to be...
[May 2, 2000, 9:25]
News Burst: FBI uses covert email surveillance system
News America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using a super-fast email scanning system dubbed "Carnivore" to covertly trawl through email messages in order to capture suspected criminals, reports the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
[July 11, 2000, 16:21]
UK workers paranoid over email surveillance
News revealed mass paranoia among the UK workforce when it comes to the sanctity of their email inbox. Forty-five percent of the 18,000 office workers polled said they suspect colleagues of taking a sneaky peak at their email when they step away from...
[March 20, 2003, 14:45]
Programmers fight government with M-o-o-t OS
News A team of cryptography experts plan to combat government email surveillance plans through a new super-secure operating system dubbed M-o-o-t. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special
[December 11, 2000, 9:22]
FBI dumps Carnivore - but in name only
News The FBI has dressed its online wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial email surveillance system -- known up until now as Carnivore. The investigative agency built the tool to monitor the Internet communications of suspects...
[February 12, 2001, 9:01]
Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info
News Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore email surveillance system. Two months later, the institute released its findings, saying the technology "protects privacy and...
[March 28, 2002, 9:24]
Reporters tracked before HP story ran
News HP's surveillance of CNET News.com reporters began before a key story was published and, following that story, expanded to include bogus email tips and physical surveillance, government investigators have told the reporters involved.
[September 20, 2006, 17:15]
ISPs debate offshore email to evade RIPA
News Several British ISPs are considering providing offshore email services in an effort to evade the government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which gives the authorities unprecedented surveillance powers.
[September 1, 2000, 10:38]
Companies increase IM surveillance
News Employers are afraid of being sued," said Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, which, together with the American Management Association (AMA), recently published a survey on email and IM surveillance in the workplace.
[October 26, 2004, 15:45]
RIP: Government claims no mass surveillance
News The government moves to reassure ISPs that mass surveillance is not on the RIP agenda as the bill suffers another setback this week. Despite government reassurances, civil liberty campaigners are still concerned that organisations in dispute with...
[July 10, 2000, 16:04]
Carnivore clone goes open source
News ISPs in Britain will no doubt also be keen to take a look at this open source snooping technology after the UK government in July introduced legislation that will require in this country to also employ email surveillance measures.
[September 21, 2000, 8:57]
Surveillance: Privacy versus policework - the debate
News Demon Internet reckons it will have to spend £1m a year to meet the government's requirements on surveillance. The powers of surveillance the police wants will impact a very few number of crimes," he says.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Documents reveal Carnivore failures
News A privacy watchdog group on Tuesday made public internal FBI documents that discuss failures of the agency's Carnivore online surveillance technology. The surveillance was performed by the FBI's International Terrorism Operations Section (ITOS) and...
[May 29, 2002, 9:13]
"Jam Echelon Day" doomed to failure, say experts
News A group of Internet activists are hoping to bring attention to the US-led communications spy network, on 21 October, with a "Jam Echelon Day", but privacy experts are certain that the protests will have a minimal effect on the sophisticated...
[July 26, 2001, 16:21]
Hushmail backs UK anti-snooping effort
News Through a joint project 'Cyber-Rights.Net', the pair will provide a route to bypass snooping regulations in the UK and at the same time draw attention to what they view as international moves to synchronise Internet surveillance.
[November 1, 2000, 15:34]
Jam Echelon Day a 'rousing' success, says organiser
News An international day of protest designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a "rousing" success according to its organisers, who claim that the cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the surveillance system.
[October 24, 2001, 17:15]
Zimmerman joins UK think tank
News Zimmerman is known for his opposition to increased surveillance, and his work on cryptography has seen him hailed by some organisations as a civil-rights champion. When the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 was passing through parliament...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
FBI's Carnivore: Gnawing at liberty?
News Southern California IT manager Steve Smith said he thought email surveillance should extend to the analogue world: "Not only does this not bother me, but I'd love to see cameras on every street corner so if there were a murder or theft, they could...
[July 12, 2000, 12:03]
Russia establishes Internet surveillance network
News To add insult to injury, according to the Moscow Times, 350 Internet companies also had to help pay for this new surveillance network. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special. The System for Operational Investigative Activies...
[December 8, 1999, 15:28]
