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FBI surveillance capability more extensive than once thought.(Inside Track)(Digital Collection System Network)(Brief article)

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Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation have provided disturbing details about the extent of the FBI's ability to monitor the communications of American citizens. According to Wired News reporter Ryan Singel, "The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of information Act."

Known as "DCSNet," for Digital Collection System Network, it closely connects FBI wiretapping installations with the nation's telecommunications infrastructure. According to Wired, "It is far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected. It's a 'comprehensive wiretap system that ...

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