While `echelon` is the most famoust`s,There are more systems to monitor the internet by the goverments like this one...
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A powerful house lawmaker asked the FBI to re-examine the extent to which its e-mail sniffing tool, "Carnivore," infringes on privacy.House Majority Leader Dick Armey in a letter asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to take a look at Carnivore in light of a recent Supreme Court case involving privacy and police technology. The nation's highest court on Monday ruled that thermal imaging devices "erode the privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment," according to the case "Kyllo v. United States." The FBI has sought to distance its e-mail sniffing capabilities from the term Carnivore and has informally changed the system's name to DCS 1000. The acronym "DCS" does not stand for anything, according to an FBI spokesman. The FBI in congressional testimony last year stressed that it intercepts communications traveling over the Internet only when it has court orders permitting it to do so. |
Source: CNN
