ACLU seeks Carnivore Information via FoIA
Surveillance and Privacy from Government
7/17/2000; 8:57:04 AM 'In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sent today to the FBI, the ACLU is seeking all agency records related to the government e-mail "cybersnoop" programs dubbed Carnivore, Omnivore and Etherpeek, including "letters, correspondence, tape recordings, notes, data, memoranda, email, computer source and object code, technical manuals, [and] technical specifications."

'"Right now, the FBI is running this software out of a black box," said Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director of the ACLU and author of the letter. "The FBI is saying, ‘trust us, we're not violating anybody's privacy.' With all due respect, we'd like to determine that for ourselves."'