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.