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[FYI] (Fwd) Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carnivore use
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:27:51 +0200
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Date sent: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:19:30 -0400
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Senate votes to permit warrantless Net-wiretaps, Carnivore use
May be relevant, given the new focus in DC on restricting privacy and
crypto...
Text of the Hatch-Feinstein "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001":
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cta.091401.html
Discussion of the CTA:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/s091301.html
-Declan
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html
Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
12:55 p.m. Sep. 14, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users
legally without a court order.
On Thursday evening, two days after the worst terrorist attack in
U.S. history, the Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of
2001," which enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring
in more situations.
The measure, proposed by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Dianne Feinstein
(D-California), says any U.S. attorney or state attorney general
can order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance
system. Previously, there were stiffer restrictions on Carnivore
and other Internet surveillance techniques.
Its bipartisan sponsors argue that such laws are necessary to
thwart terrorism. "It is essential that we give our law
enforcement authorities every possible tool to search out and
bring to justice those individuals who have brought such
indiscriminate death into our backyard," Hatch said during the
debate on the Senate floor.
[...]
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