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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are taking the US Government to court over claims of domestic spying. It alleges that the Government’s new DCS-3000 system is an automated system designed to intercept and read emails (basically a new generation of the previous Carnivore system that performed the same task). The US Government declined to respond to a Freedom Of Information Request by the EFF, so it is being taken to court. You can read the full story here but the likelihood of success is fairly slim based on the EFF’s poor record of winning cases it takes to court. We can always live in hope, but it seems that personal privacy and the US Government are not currently compatible.

To make you feel even worse, the US Government have another system called RedHook that automatically intercepts voice phone callse and performs the same operations as Carnivore does with email. Are you sure you don’t need encryption!?!?