Bush wants real-time web monitoring  

By Nick Farrell [20-12-2002]  

ISPs to be co-opted into Big Brother plan  

The Bush administration is planning to make internet service providers 
help in the building of a centralised system to enable broad monitoring 
of the web.  

According to the New York Times, a final version of a report being 
prepared by the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board 
(CIPB) is set for release early next year.  

It is intended to generate public and private co-operation to regulate 
and defend vital computer networks from viruses, hackers and terrorist 
attacks.  

Tiffany Olson, deputy chief of staff at the CIPB, told the New York 
Times: "We don't have anybody that is able to look at the entire picture. 
When something is happening, we don't know until it's too late."  

But critics fear that the plan would give the government the potential 
for real-time monitoring of individuals.

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Source: Vnunet - http://www.vnunetnews.com/News/1137717


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