EFF Sues the Dept. of Defense Over Surveillance

An anonymous reader writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a lawsuit against the US government, demanding the publication of information about FBI cyber surveillance operations. The EFF launched its action after the authorities failed to disclose information requested under the Freedom of Information act. The EFF wants to find out more about two electronic surveillance systems used by the government agency to monitor electronic communications." From the article: "A Justice Department Inspector General report in March said the FBI had spent about $10 million on DCS-3000 to intercept communications over emerging digital technologies used by wireless carriers before next year's federal deadline for them to deploy their own wiretap capabilities. The same report said the FBI spent more than $1.5 million to develop Red Hook, 'a system to collect voice and data calls and then process and display the intercepted information' before those wiretap capabilities are in place."

Comments

Re:FBI is DOJ not DOD

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not disputing the government is doing it nor arguing whether the program is good or bad. I'm saying slashbots jumped all over Fox News a couple days ago for having a D next to Foley's name but it's perfectly acceptable to name the wrong department in a headline here.

Re:Liberal hysteria!!

[demigod]

...attempt to slow down Europe from becoming the dominant superpower on earth...

You got to be kidding.

The next dominant superpower will be either China or India. My money is on China, since, like it or not, that's were most of the money I spend goes. My job will evenutally go to India but hopefully that won't be to soon.