"The [British] measure... would give the government new powers to require Internet service providers to install 'black box' surveillance systems that would sort and send a range of data and e-mail to a monitoring center controlled by the domestic security service, M.I.5.
"Such systems are also being used in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where the technology is known as Carnivore because it is able to extract the 'meat' quickly from vast quantities of e-mail messages and other communications between computers." [1]
"British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail", New York Times International, 7-19-00
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