The law school symposium that started the scandal
Stanford University law school had a symposium called “Beyond a Physical Conception of the 4th Amendment: Search & Seizure in the Digital Age”. Paul Ohm, a University of Colorado law professor who was a commenter at the symposium said that federal agents use this kind of “full-pipe recording” as a default method for surveillance. “You collect wherever you can on the (network) segment,” Ohm said. “If it happens to be the segment that has a lot of IP addresses (Internet Protocol addresses; a computer’s unique numerical address), you don’t throw away the other IP addresses. You do that after the fact. You intercept first and you use whatever filtering, data mining to get at the information about the person you’re trying to monitor. The question that’s interesting…is whether this is illegal, whether it’s constitutional. Is Congress even aware they’re doing this?”
“What they’re doing is even worse than Carnivore,” said Kevin Bankston, a Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney. “What they’re doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets.”
http://waronyou.com/2008/04/the-fbi-database-how-the-government-is-spying-on-you/
Stanford University law school had a symposium called “Beyond a Physical Conception of the 4th Amendment: Search & Seizure in the Digital Age”. Paul Ohm, a University of Colorado law professor who was a commenter at the symposium said that federal agents use this kind of “full-pipe recording” as a default method for surveillance. “You collect wherever you can on the (network) segment,” Ohm said. “If it happens to be the segment that has a lot of IP addresses (Internet Protocol addresses; a computer’s unique numerical address), you don’t throw away the other IP addresses. You do that after the fact. You intercept first and you use whatever filtering, data mining to get at the information about the person you’re trying to monitor. The question that’s interesting…is whether this is illegal, whether it’s constitutional. Is Congress even aware they’re doing this?”
“What they’re doing is even worse than Carnivore,” said Kevin Bankston, a Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney. “What they’re doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets.”
http://waronyou.com/2008/04/the-fbi-database-how-the-government-is-spying-on-you/
