Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year

Fnord666 sends this quote from an article at Slate: "Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a 'top priority' this year. ... a 1994 surveillance law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act only allows the government to force Internet providers and phone companies to install surveillance equipment within their networks. But it doesn't cover email, cloud services, or online chat providers like Skype. Weissmann said that the FBI wants the power to mandate real-time surveillance of everything from Dropbox and online games ('the chat feature in Scrabble') to Gmail and Google Voice. 'Those communications are being used for criminal conversations,' he said."

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Re:This Country is Going to Hell

[Dunbal]

The general public is currently mesmerized by gay marriage and who killed Emmanuel Goldste-er Bin Laden, with a little bit of fiscal fear thrown in to stimulate healthy shouting matches of "republitard/democrap" to drain any excess energy. They really don't care about shit like this. They want to be told that if they work like good little drones they will live the American dream buying a home they can't afford and leaving enormous amounts of debt to their children. Their coddled, pampered children raised in kid-safe environments and fattened on redundant, non productive smart-phone technology, who will have no idea what happened to their world when the Chinese come to collect the debt they are owed.