Carnivore has been in the news lately, and it’s privacy rights activists, not animal rights activists, who are concerned about this beast. Carnivore — whose name is changing to the less controversial ...

Now the FBI wants to recruit Internet service providers, or ISPs, to spy on U.S. citizens. The FBI already works with the credit companies to secretly snoop on large portions of our digital credit ...

A bill requiring federal law-enforcement officials to be more forthright when answering questions about electronic surveillance systems has passed the U.S. House. The bill, which passed by a unanimous ...

Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance system. A federal judge this ...

A technical glitch in the FBI system for tapping e-mail hampered an investigation apparently linked to Osama bin Laden and raises privacy concerns, a privacy watchdog group said yesterday. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has effectively abandoned its custom-built Internet surveillance technology, once known as Carnivore, designed to read e-mails and other online communications among suspected ...