FBI Internet Surveillance More Extensive Than Previously Known

The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. Cnet News reports that instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling data on thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases. Those databases can then be mined for names, e-mail addresses or keywords.

Declan McCullagh is the Chief Political Correspondent for C-NET News. He joins me on the line from San Francisco.

* Declan McCullagh. Chief Political Correspondent for C-NET News.com.

LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1543233