IP: Carnivore not invasion of privacy, review says

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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Carnivore not invasion of privacy, review says

WASHINGTON--The FBI's controversial email surveillance tool works about the 
way the bureau says and generally doesn't "overcollect" evidence, according 
to an independent reviewer of the system.
But his remarks failed to calm the fears of privacy advocates.

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Henry H. Perritt said in an interview that he had recommended how the 
so-called Carnivore system could be improved, both for efficiency and 
privacy, but that all in all, it performed as advertised.
"I think that it's fair to say that it does pretty much what the FBI says 
it did. For the most part, it does not overcollect," he said.
Perritt, who is dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent 
College of Law, declined to list his recommended improvements or how 
Carnivore sometimes overcollected.
The Justice Department is releasing Perritt's findings Tuesday.
Alan Davidson of the Washington-based Center for Democracy and Technology 
said that although Carnivore may be technically sound, wiretap law isn't 
keeping up with new gadgets.



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