EPIC Critiques FBI's Limited Carnivore Data Release on Privacy Concerns

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington charged that the FBI's first release of documents on its Carnivore Internet surveillance system last week doesn't include enough information to evaluate the technology for possible privacy violations.. . . The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington charged that the FBI's first release of documents on its Carnivore Internet surveillance system last week doesn't include enough information to evaluate the technology for possible privacy violations.

EPIC acquired the 565 pages of data in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit it filed against the FBI in July. When EPIC complained that the FBI was slow to respond to the request, the agency was ordered by U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson at an August hearing to quantify the documents and develop a release schedule.

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