IP: Armey to Press Opposition to Net Wiretaps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Armey to Press Opposition to Net Wiretaps
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:33:06 +0200
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> Armey to Press Opposition to Net Wiretaps
>
> By JOHN SCHWARTZ
> The New York Times
>
> Whatever happened to Carnivore? That's the question that Representative Dick
> Armey of Texas, the House majority leader, has posed in a letter to Attorney
> General John Ashcroft.
>
> The letter, which Mr. Armey's office will make public today, asks the
> Justice Department and the F.B.I to reconsider the use of the Internet
> wiretapping technology formerly known as Carnivore. It cited a decision on
> Monday by the United States Supreme Court restricting the use of
> thermal-imaging technology to peer inside a suspect's house, and suggested
> that Carnivore "similarly undermines the minimum expectation" of privacy
> that the court said was violated in the recent case, Kyllo v. United States.
>
> "I respectfully ask that you consider the serious constitutional questions
> Carnivore has raised and respond with how you intend to address them," Mr.
> Armey wrote.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/14/technology/14CARN.html
>
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