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The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The justices, without comment, declined to review a lower court The link for this article located at Wired is no longer available. . The High Court reaches a resolution on a protracted matter concerning unauthorized digital monitoring initiated by the ACLU.. digital privacy, electronic monitoring, EFF surveillance, court ruling. . Anthony Pell
Echelon exists, the European Union (EU) Parliament was told Wednesday. Echelon, allegedly a vast information collection system capable of monitoring all the electronic communications in the world, has been talked about in security circles for several years. But no government agency . . . . Echelon exists, the European Union (EU) Parliament was told Wednesday. Echelon, allegedly a vast information collection system capable of monitoring all the electronic communications in the world, has been talked about in security circles for several years. But no government agency in the world has ever confirmed or denied its existence. An EU committee has been investigating the system for almost a year. Just because the surveillance network exists, however, doesn't mean that government agencies can access all the information Echelon collects, Gerhard Schmid, the German Member of the European Parliament (MEP), told Parliament members in Strasbourg. The European Parliament accepted Schmid and his team's 130-page-plus report and its 44 recommendations in a 367-159 vote. There were 34 abstentions, though these were not explained. In his presentation, Schmid said that Echelon which allegedly is a joint venture between the governments of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia and New Zealand - sucks up electronic transmissions "like a vacuum cleaner," using keyword search techniques to sift through enormous amounts of data. The link for this article located at ComputerUser is no longer available. . The unveiling of Echelon at the European Parliament sheds light on the vast surveillance of digital interactions. Understand the consequences.. Echelon Network, Electronic Surveillance, Data Monitoring. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
The Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute has barely begun its review of Carnivore, an electronic-surveillance system being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but already a Congressional leader is branding the review a "sham.". . .. The Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute has barely begun its review of Carnivore, an electronic-surveillance system being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but already a Congressional leader is branding the review a "sham." Richard K. Armey, the Texas Republican who is majority leader of the House of Representatives, criticized the Justice Department on Thursday for selecting the research institute, a nonprofit affiliate of I.I.T., because one member of the institute's review team worked for the Clinton administration and another was once an employee of the Justice Department. The link for this article located at The Chronicle is no longer available. . The analysis conducted by Illinois Institute regarding the FBI's Carnivore tracking system has incited backlash from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.. Illinois Institute,FBI Surveillance,Carnivore System,Government Oversight,Electronic Monitoring. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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