DOJ Already Monitoring Cable Internet Traffic

According to this Wired News article, the Justice Department is already using its new powers under the USA Patriot Act to obtain subscribers' identities and other information from cable operators without judicial oversight under Section 211 of the new legislation. Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff also says that the act has allowed police to obtain IP addresses of cable subscribers and has enabled DOJ to obtain court orders for ISP logs outside a court's traditional jurisdiction. The Senate Judiciary Committee has convened hearings to review the impact of the Bush administration's actions on civil liberties, but A.G. Ashcroft is not scheduled to appear until December 6. One wonders what effect the upcoming cable failure will have on government surveilance of the potentially criminal citizenry.

Comments

Re:fight despair

[Anonymous Coward]

lame siggy imitation, look around the archives to see how it's really done boy

Civil liberties..

[Anonymous Coward]

The penis is neither a pen nor a is.

regarding the cable failure

[ekephart]

I imagine that most major carriers have backup plans. For instance I remember reading that Comcast will use @iComcast.net to replace @home.com. Yesterday I received a letter via snail mail from AT&T Broadband stating that should the need arise they would switch over to @attbi.com (AT&T Broadband Internet) and would be calling every individual subscriber by phone! AT&T gains points in my book if they do actually call all of us. Hopefully they will.

Re:Wonderful

[merauder]

moron, have anything useful to say then that?

Isn't he the biggot?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd waste this asshole my self if I had the desire. But he's a waste of a human being(if you can call him that). For every moron I meet that thinks Regan was the best president of all time, I just want to slap them.

Re:Anonymous

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Trying... It was a reach.

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