FC: Senate should ask FBI nominee Mueller about privacy, EPIC says

[Declan McCullagh]

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

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