A government plan to monitor networks for intrusions goes too far and will lead to increased surveillance and privacy violations, a civil liberties group told a Senate panel on Tuesday. Documents the group received through a Freedom of Information Act request indicate the administration is considering broad access to credit card and phone records of private citizens and monitoring of government workers' computers, EPIC director Marc Rotenberg told the Senate judiciary subcommittee on technology and terrorism.
Today is no exception.
Civil liberties groups and some legislators warned it could be too intrusive and could monitor the private-sector Internet. A top FBI official said the same thing in January, warning that electric power is vulnerable to miscreant hackers.