FBI forms a new internet-surveillance unit

[sage]

Big Brother is Watching: FBI forms a new internet-surveillance unit
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technolo...173958595.html

Your tax dollars are going to fund new and inventive ways to spy on your internet communications Most of us are very protective of our email, online banking, and even social networking accounts. We know what a nightmare it can be to get hacked, or just as bad, to have a stranger learn all sorts of personal information about us. But according to a new CNET report, it's not strangers we should be the most worried about eavesdropping on our comings and goings on the net — it's our own government.

According to the report, the FBI has opened a new $54 million Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC), http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=...iw=800&bih=396, in Quantico, Virginia. The goal of the DCAC is simple: To develop technology to allow the government to break encryption, eavesdrop on private communications, and even intercept Skype calls. The DCAC also serves to assist federal, local, and state authorities in their digital wiretapping efforts. The center does not perform wiretapping itself; it simply helps other agencies execute their own wiretapping plans.

Predictably, civil liberties groups are up in arms over the agency — especially its secrecy. Says Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, "they're doing the best they can to avoid being transparent. The big question for me is why there isn't more transparency about what's going on? We should know more about the program and what the FBI is doing."
https://www.eff.org/


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[Contumacious]

[B]Big Brother is Watching: FBI forms a new internet-surveillance unit

I suspected they were going to do that after they hired the Chinese Communist party as their consultant.

Outspoken Chinese censor silenced

The golden rule:

Those with the Gold, Make the Rules

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[ODENTON]

The FBI has been listening for decades, only difference now is it's easier. (cell phones, internet, some say smart meters, even your car).

Hell we have NSA right down the street. They have the best spying technology in the world and probably know what I had for breakfast.

[slapshot]

USSID 18

Unless they have probably cause, they can't decrypt, or demod private communications to, or from a US citizen. And that includes US citizens that are outside the US.

Interceptig communications between people that re NOT US citizens, is a differet matter.

[gonzoliberal]

Not news.

Hasn't been news for two hundred years.

They're just getting better at it.

Oh, and lying about it.

[sage]

USSID 18

Unless they have probably cause, they can't decrypt, or demod private communications to, or from a US citizen. And that includes US citizens that are outside the US.

Interceptig communications between people that re NOT US citizens, is a differet matter.

Exposed in 2006..............

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...5-10-nsa_x.htm

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: The NSA record collection program

Q: When did this start?

A: After the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g

Q: Can I find out if my call records were collected?

A: No. The NSA's work is secret, and the agency won't publicly discuss its operations.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...-nsa-qna_x.htm