Webliminalblog: Internet Surveillance

July 11, 2004

I started reading the report The Internet Under Surveillance 2004 from Reporters Without Borders, and thought that the topic, Internet Surveillance would be a good one to use in lectures and class activities in my course The Internet: Technology, Information, and Issues this fall.

In some related searching I was lead to a few other reports.

Internet Surveillance Law After the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother That Isn't " This article argues that the common wisdom on the USA Patriot Act is wrong. Far from being a significant expansion of law enforcement powers online, the Patriot Act actually changed Internet surveillance law in only minor ways and added several key privacy protections"
Milking the Internet surveillance cash cow "Pundits and policy-makers are arguing over the legal implications of the FBI's recent petition to the FCC (http://www.cdt.org/digi_tele/20040310fbipetition.pdf) about how to implement the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. But the Bureau's push to get broadband providers covered under CALEA, which currently applies only to telecom carriers, stands to benefit more than just government spies: a domestic eavesdropping industry stands waiting to sell Internet wiretapping tools and services to cable and DSL companies."
Internet and e-mail surveillance at the workplace " In Switzerland, large numbers of employees have access to the Internet and e-mail from their workplace - essentially for professional reasons, but sometimes for private use also. What use is permitted, and how surveillance may be carried out, is clarified here. "

I also came across The Register - a great site for Internet and IT related news.

Posted by ernie at July 11, 2004 11:24 AM