MetaFilter posts tagged with FBI and Surveillance

AT&T Unity Plan FREE calling to 100 million customers.

homunculus — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:23:43 -0800

AT&T and Verizon obey FBI emergency requests, even if they're of dubious legality, and they get paid for it. But AT&T can't be sued, they say, because that would endanger national security.

Flowers By Irene

homunculus — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:50:29 -0800

FBI turns to broad new wiretap method. "The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed." [Via TPMmuckraker]

FBI's Surveillance Grows by 100X

digaman — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:15:42 -0800

The FBI knows you're reading MetaFilter. [WashPost link]

FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations

Postroad — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:43:00 -0800

FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations ...Records turned over as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit also indicate that the FBI has investigated hundreds of potential violations related to its use of secret surveillance operations, which have been stepped up dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but are largely hidden from public view...

Judge Rules Against Part of the Patriot Act

fenriq — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:52:02 -0800

Judge Rules Against Patriot Act Provision
In what can only be described as "a good thing", a US District judge has found that "Surveillance powers granted to the FBI under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush Administration's war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional".

FBI Wiretaps reach record numbers

busbyism — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:05:15 -0800

Thanks to PATRIOT Act, FBI wiretaps reach record numbers. 'Thanks to the bundle of anti-terrorism measures known as the USA Patriot Act, the FBI is conducting a "record amount" of electronic surveillance, including the use of wiretaps and bugs, according to an FBI spokesman and a Justice Department budget document. Yet the bounty perpetuates an old problem: The bureau can't keep up with all the information pouring in.'

What you do in Vegas stays in your file

homunculus — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:55:20 -0800

The FBI has been given increased surveillance powers without court oversight under the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, which was signed into law on the day Saddam was captured. The law was recently used to have hotels and airlines in Las Vegas turn over guest and passenger names and information for the holiday period.

gimonca — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 09:58:34 -0800

If they're not chasing terrorists, just what are they doing? Eavesdropping on a New Orleans cathouse, apparently.

matteo — Tue, 28 May 2002 16:19:20 -0800

No Carnivore? No Osama evidence "The FBI destroyed evidence gathered in an investigation involving bin Laden's network after its e-mail wiretap system mistakenly captured information to which the agency was not entitled. The FBI technical person was apparently so upset that he destroyed all the e-mail take, including the take on" the suspect, the memo said". Another example of the need for significant FBI reform?

bas67 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:39:30 -0800

The New McCarthyism This is so scary. It doesn't seem like anything more than intimidation, but, that's now. What will happen next?

Mick — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:56:37 -0800

FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet "FBI has plans to change the architecture of the Internet and route traffic through central servers that it would be able to monitor e-mail more easily." (via InstaPundit)

skallas — Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:54:58 -0800

48 hours of wiretap without a court order? Sure, according to the Senate. Carnivore installations on the rise and the recent call to control crypto software are exactly what we don't need. This is probably just the beginning.

crasspastor — Wed, 16 May 2001 00:32:46 -0800

Does the FBI read Metafilter? Is the FBI gonna lock you up for what you've posted? Has the internet made it easier for the FBI etc. to survey our reach into the world of ideas and thoughts and add our own? I may go by "crasspastor" and I don't want to be labeled crackpastor, but doesn't it all make sense? Seattle Independent Media reports this as of April 27 2001 as a side note.

baylink — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 19:35:22 -0800

Apparently, we're not the *only* ones who may think that Louis Freeh needs a new job.

baylink — Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:05:36 -0800

It is time for Louis Freeh to lose his job. Carnivore, indeed. This has got to stop.