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Wiretap Overview

Overview Government Surveillance of Telephones and the Internet

Search & Seizure
The Dept. of Justice has written a manual on the rules for seizing evidence stored in computers. "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations"

Carnivore
Carnivore is a computer program designed by the FBI to intercept Internet communications.

CDT's Carnivore Reference Page

CALEA
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA) was supposed to preserve law enforcement surveillance capabilities in the face of technological chage, but the FBI has been trying to use it to claim control over the design of the telephone network to enhance its surveillance powers.

CDT's CALEA Reference Page

Roving Wiretaps
A roving wiretap order allows the government to tap any phone lines that a suspect may use.

-Congress Passes "Roving Wiretaps," Expands Surveillance Authority
-E-RIGHTS Bill (S. 854) tightens standard for roving taps

Echelon
Echelon is a secretive international surveillance system that operates outside of the normal limitations of the Constitution.

International Monitoring by US government

FIDNet
FIDNet is a comprehensive monitoring system intended to protect government computers, but it raises serious privacy concerns.

CDT's FIDNet Reference Page

CESA
CESA was a bill proposed by the Clinton Administration that would allow the government to seize decryption keys without notice to the user.

CDT's CESA Reference Page

Articles

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Threats to Privacy and Other Civil Liberties and Concerns with Government Mandates on Industry DePaul Business Law Journal (1999-2000)

Communications Privacy In The Digital Age: Revitalizing The Federal Wiretap Laws To Enhance Privacy Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology (1997)
CIO Cyberthreat Response and Reporting Guidelines Guidelines for responding to attacks on computer systems endorsed by the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, published in CIOmagazine, a trade publication, Feb 2002.

Echelon
	The US government has long conducted extensive eavesdropping overseas, as part of the National Security Agency's foreign intelligence collection activities. This foreign surveillance occurs outside the normal limitations of the Constitution. With the globalization of communications, the overseas snooping activities of the US and its allies have attracted renewed attention and concern. CDT has joined other civil liberties advocates in the US in calling for a full accounting of the legal standards governing such overseas surveillance. This Memo by CDT and other privacy groups written in June of 1999 to encourage the Judiciary and Government Reform Committees to undertake an investigation, including public hearings, on the threat to the privacy and civil liberties of Americans posed by the involvement of the US government in international electronic surveillance activities.
Headlines
	International Monitoring by US government U.S. Eyes Europe's Echelon Probe -Wired Magazine July 6, 2000 Echelon: The evidence -ZDNet UK June 29, 2000 ACLU Echelon Watch

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