huridocs-tech USA: Government surveillance

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Marc Rotenberg's very good testimony is at:
   http://judiciary.senate.gov/2100mr.htm

He tells me EPIC will place the FOIA'd docs from DoJ online shortly.

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34027,00.html

                        Cyber Safe or Gov't Surveillance?
                        by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

                        10:40 a.m. 1.Feb.2000 PST
                        WASHINGTON -- A government plan to
                        monitor networks for intrusions goes too
                        far and will lead to increased surveillance
                        and privacy violations, a civil liberties
                        group told a Senate panel on Tuesday.

                        The Electronic Privacy Information Center
                        said a memo it obtained last week shows
                        that the Clinton administration's FIDNET
                        proposal for "information systems
                        protection" will result in unwarranted
                        spying on Americans.

                        Documents the group received through a
                        Freedom of Information Act request
                        indicate the administration is considering
                        broad access to credit card and phone
                        records of private citizens and monitoring
                        of government workers' computers, EPIC
                        director Marc Rotenberg told the Senate
                        judiciary subcommittee on technology and
                        terrorism.

                        "The FIDNET proposal, as currently
                        conceived, must simply be withdrawn. It
                        is impermissible in the United States to
                        give a federal agency such extensive
                        surveillance authority," Rotenberg told
                        the panel chaired by Jon Kyl, an Arizona
                        Republican.

                        [...]




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