Public Trust In Government Surveillance And Privacy Concerns

Can the public trust the government to limit its use of the system to capturing spies, hackers and terrorists while protecting the privacy of law-abiding Americans? Or should that trust be given to another party that would administer the online taps? . . . Can the public trust the government to limit its use of the system to capturing spies, hackers and terrorists while protecting the privacy of law-abiding Americans? Or should that trust be given to another party that would administer the online taps? Civil liberties groups have grown increasingly concerned about Carnivore--a computer system so nicknamed because it rapidly finds the "meat" in vast amounts of data--saying it raises issues about what constitutes a reasonable search and seizure of electronic information.