FC: EPIC testifies against CIAO privacy-invading plan, FOIAs memos

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Marc Rotenberg's very good testimony is at:
  http://judiciary.senate.gov/2100mr.htm

He tells me EPIC will place the FOIA'd docs from DoJ online shortly.

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34027,00.html

                       Cyber Safe or Gov't Surveillance?
                       by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

                       10:40 a.m. 1.Feb.2000 PST
                       WASHINGTON -- A government plan to
                       monitor networks for intrusions goes too
                       far and will lead to increased surveillance
                       and privacy violations, a civil liberties
                       group told a Senate panel on Tuesday.

                       The Electronic Privacy Information Center
                       said a memo it obtained last week shows
                       that the Clinton administration's FIDNET
                       proposal for "information systems
                       protection" will result in unwarranted
                       spying on Americans.

                       Documents the group received through a
                       Freedom of Information Act request
                       indicate the administration is considering
                       broad access to credit card and phone
                       records of private citizens and monitoring
                       of government workers' computers, EPIC
                       director Marc Rotenberg told the Senate
                       judiciary subcommittee on technology and
                       terrorism.

                       "The FIDNET proposal, as currently
                       conceived, must simply be withdrawn. It
                       is impermissible in the United States to
                       give a federal agency such extensive
                       surveillance authority," Rotenberg told
                       the panel chaired by Jon Kyl, an Arizona
                       Republican.

                       [...]


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