Robert Mueller, FBI director-designate, will be before the Senate Judiciary committee on Monday. EPIC's letter is a worthy effort to raise the topic of privacy, and will (I hope) get Mueller's views in the public record. EPIC's Marc Rotenberg correctly says that as the first FBI director of the 21st century, Mueller will have access to more sophisticated surveillance technologies than his predecessors. (Carnivore may get the most attention, but I'm more concerned about automated face recognition systems, and I hope that comes up on Monday.) Background on Robert Mueller, FBI director-designate: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02233.html Senate hearing notice: http://judiciary.senate.gov/hr073001f.htm Politech archive on Carnivore: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=carnivore Politech archive on Kyllo decision: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=kyllo -Declan *********