Subject: Pew releases 'Carnivore' survey.
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:02:49 -0700
Monday, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey on public
attitudes in regard to online crime & governmental attempts to combat it.
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=32
Methodology (unlike the implications of the results) looks acceptable.
>From the summary:
"Some 54% of Americans approve of the idea of FBI monitoring of suspects'
email, while 34% disapprove."
"Among the relatively small number of Americans (21%) who have heard about
the FBI's email sniffing program called "Carnivore" or "DCS1000," there is
much more evenly divided opinion. Forty-five percent of people who have
heard of it say Carnivore is good because it will allow the FBI a new way of
tracking down criminals. Another 45% say Carnivore is bad because it could
be used to read emails to and from ordinary citizens."
Ethan
Ethan Ackerman
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Law, Commerce & Technology
University of Washington School of Law
-- Anonymous, April 03, 2001