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Re: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Wed Aug 2 13:56:15 2000
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From http://www.yahoo.com 8/2/2000 1pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered an emergency hearing
on Wednesday on a privacy rights group's request for the immediate
release of details on Carnivore, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's e-mail surveillance tool.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), in its
application to the judge, accused the FBI and the U.S. Justice
Department of breaching the law by failing to act on a request for
fast-track processing of a Freedom of Information Act query about the
snooping system.
The FBI told Congress last month that Carnivore is designed to
intercept data from the electronic mail of a criminal suspect by
monitoring traffic at an Internet service provider. EPIC wants the
FBI to disclose how it works.
U.S. District Judge James Robinson set the hearing for 3:30 p.m.
EDT (1930 GMT) at the federal courthouse in Washington.
Attorney General Janet Reno said last week that technical
specifications of the system would be disclosed to a ``group of
experts.''
