The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is still developing its Carnivore Internet surveillance tool, according to FBI documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The FBI is now creating "Enhanced Carnivore" under a . . .
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is still developing its Carnivore Internet surveillance tool, according to FBI documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The FBI is now creating "Enhanced Carnivore" under a contract that runs through January that calls for the development of two new versions of the system, says David Sobel, general counsel at EPIC.

The documents show that a possible feature of future versions will be interception of Voice Over IP communications, a technology commonly used to make phone calls using the Internet. However, much of the details about the new features were redacted, Sobel says. The documents also clarify Carnivore's capabilities beyond e-mail surveillance, such as the system's ability to extract packets that contain information about the Web sites an individual viewed and "presumably anything that is being communicated," Sobel says.

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