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                Date: 1999-07-28
                 
                 
                Lizenz zum Datamining fuer FBI
                
                 
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      Was die gesetzlich ermächtigten Polizeibehörden hierzulande als  
"vorbeugende Gefahrenerforschung"  gern in polizeiliche  
Ermächtigungsgesetze eingeschrieben hätten, darf anderswo das  
FBI. Unter dem Motto "Schutz der gefährdeten IT-Infrastruktur" kann  
künftig hemmungsloses Datamining in regierungseigenen Netzen  
betrieben werden.   
 
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) today reiterated its  
concerns that governmental efforts to protect the "critical  
infrastructure" pose serious threats to the privacy and civil liberties of  
American citizens.  EPIC repeated its warning in the wake of reports  
that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is about to embark  
upon a comprehensive program of monitoring non-military  
Government computer networks and communications networks used  
by crucial industries like banking, telecommunications and  
transportation. 
 
In its report "Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Endangerment  
of Civil Liberties," released in October 1998, EPIC noted that the  
President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP)  
had proposed the development of a large-scale monitoring strategy  
for communications networks. Borrowing techniques that have been  
applied to hostile governments and foreign agents, the PCCIP brings  
the Cold War home with an open-ended proposal to conduct ongoing  
surveillance on the communications of American citizens. 
 
EPIC noted in its report that "these proposals are more of a threat to  
our system of ordered liberty than any single attack on our  
infrastructure could ever be." 
 
According to EPIC General Counsel David Sobel, the new FBI  
surveillance plan "demonstrates that privacy concerns are being  
swept under the rug." He warned that, "There is a real danger that a  
Cold War mentality is developing within the federal government when  
it comes to the perceived threats of the Internet and communications  
technology." 
 
Since the publication of its report, EPIC has been monitoring  
implementation of the PCCIP recommendations, including the  
"United States National Plan for Information Systems Protection."  
That plan calls for the establishment of a Federal Intrusion Detection  
Network (FIDNET).  The FIDNET system would be linked to a similar  
system in the Defense Department known as the Joint Task  
Force/Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND), which monitors all  
Defense Department networks.  Earlier this year, EPIC filed a series  
of Freedom of Information Act requests seeking the details of these  
initiatives. 
 
"Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Endangerment of Civil  
Liberties" is available at: 
 
http://www.epic.org/security/infowar/epic-cip.html
                   
 
EPIC's archive of materials on Critical Infrastructure Protection is  
available at: 
 
http://www.epic.org/security/infowar/resources.html
                   
 
 
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