 "The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously been disclosed," according to a story posted Tue on ZDNet, a technology news website. Agents engaging in investigations appear to be amassing huge databases of data on thousands of Internet users, rather than eyeing the activities of particular suspects -- similar to the sweeping approach employed by the National Security Agency. The NSA wiretaps program drew congressional uproar after it was revealed the program was taking place without supervision by a court. "Such a technique is broader & potentially more intrusive than the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000," ZDNet's Declan McCullagh writes. "It raises concerns similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that NSA is said to have done, according to documents that have surfaced in one federal lawsuit & may stretch the bounds of what's legally permissible"...
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