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Wiretap Overview Overview Government Surveillance of Telephones and the Internet Search & Seizure The Dept. of Justice has written a manual on the rules for seizing evidence stored in computers. "Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations" Carnivore Carnivore is a computer program designed by the FBI to intercept Internet communications. CDT's Carnivore Reference Page
CALEA The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA) was supposed to preserve law enforcement surveillance capabilities in the face of technological chage, but the FBI has been trying to use it to claim control over the design of the telephone network to enhance its surveillance powers.
Roving Wiretaps A roving wiretap order allows the government to tap any phone lines that a suspect may use.
-Congress Passes "Roving Wiretaps," Expands Surveillance Authority
Echelon Echelon is a secretive international surveillance system that operates outside of the normal limitations of the Constitution.
International Monitoring by US government
FIDNet FIDNet is a comprehensive monitoring system intended to protect government computers, but it raises serious privacy concerns. CESA CESA was a bill proposed by the Clinton Administration that would allow the government to seize decryption keys without notice to the user. Articles
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CDT letter in support of S. 436February 25, 2003 Honorable Patrick J. Leahy Honorable Charles E. Grassley Honorable Arlen Specter Dear Senators Leahy, Grassley and Specter: We write in support of the Domestic Surveillance Oversight Act of 2003. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes secret wiretaps and secret searches of the homes and offices of Americans and other forms of data gathering for national security reasons. While the initial enactment of FISA was an appropriate accommodation of national security interests and individual rights to privacy and due process, since its initial enactment FISA has been expanded in ways that pose an increased threat to individual rights. Moreover, FISA surveillance authorities are now being used more and more; indeed, it appears that the federal government carries out more electronic surveillance under the authority of FISA than under criminal rules. Given the absolute secrecy of FISA searches and seizures, mechanisms for public accountability are crucial to protect rights of privacy - as well as to insure effective and efficient use of this extraordinary authority. Your bill to require public accounting of the number of US persons subjected to surveillance under FISA, the number of times FISA information is used for law enforcement purposes, and to require disclosure of other information would be an important step in providing for oversight and public scrutiny of these extraordinary powers. Disclosure of such information is important to informing the American public and will not be harmful to the national security, as it will not give any greater clues as to who is being targeted, or the scope of the anti-terrorism efforts than is already known from the Justice Department's own extensive public descriptions of those efforts. We commend you on your leadership on this issue and look forward to working with you and your colleagues to achieve appropriate policies for responding to terrorism and other national security threats. Laura W. Murphy James X. Dempsey, Executive Director Kate Martin, Director Morton H. Halperin, Director |
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