Is the FBI reading my e-mail?
Introduction to Is the FBI reading my e-mail? February 1, 2007 When the FBI announced two years ago that it no was longer using its controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance software — in fact, hadn’t used it since 2003 — it seemed like an important victory for privacy advocates. The FBI was instead relying on Internet service providers to provide agents with information on targeted individuals, including e-mail exchanges and Web-browsing activity. To privacy groups, this was a small step up from Carnivore, since Carnivore could, in practice if not in legal right, capture any electronic communication it wanted. The idea was that at least the ISP could stand as a wall between the FBI and the people who used the Internet for purposes other than terrorist activity. It could, in theory, filter out everything except what was explicitly cal
