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prvy: US Government reads e-mails |
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AplusWebMaster writes "FYI... The Inquirer.net
27 May 2004
...According to a congressional report obtained by Reuters, [U]36 of the government's 199 data mining efforts collect personal information from the private sector[/U]. Fears that the Pentagon's $54 million Total Information Awareness program would do just that and kill civil rights resulted in the scheme being culled. However it seems that all the spooks have done is launch programmes that are remarkably similar including plans to read emails. According to the report, at least one unnamed agency is mining intelligence reports and Internet searches [I]to identify foreign terrorists or U.S. citizens connected to foreign terrorism activities[/I]...
See: - Reuters Story "
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Posted on Thursday, 27 May 2004 @ 11:16:20 EDT by cj
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