Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:09:34 +0100
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data
of Americans

Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of
Americans

By JOHN MARKOFF
The New York Times

The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast
electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt
for terrorists around the globe — including the United States.

As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described
the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches, it will provide
intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to
information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and
banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant.

Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not been permitted to
spy on Americans without extraordinary legal authorization. But Admiral
Poindexter, the former national security adviser in the Reagan
administration, has argued that the government needs broad new powers to
process, store and mine billions of minute details of electronic life in the
United States.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.html

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