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The National Security Agency [8], once known for its skill in eavesdropping on the world's telephone calls, is adapting to the times by "focusing on widespread monitoring of e-mail messages and text messages, recording of Web browsing, and other forms of electronic data-mining, all done without court supervision," reports Declan McCullagh. "Taken together, those activities raise unique privacy and oversight concerns greater than those posed by large-scale monitoring of voice communications. ... If the reports are correct, what this transactional-data-dragnet amounts to is a rebuilding of the Defense Department [9]'s Total Information Awareness [10] program, which promised to do extensive warrantless data-mining to identify 'information signatures' that could identify criminals."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media/internet
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/human-rights
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/secrecy
[6] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government
[7] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2008%2F03%2F7102%2Fadios-online-privacy&linkname=Adios%2C%20Online%20Privacy
[8] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Security_Agency
[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Department_of_Defense
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Total_Information_Awareness
[11] http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9890761-38.html?tag=bl