Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 08:41:02 +0600 From: jim@Tadpole.COM (Jim Thompson) Message-Id: <9403141441.AA14201@chiba.tadpole.com> To: com-priv@lists.psi.com Subject: ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING From: Christopher Cotton Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 00:16:27 -0500 ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING A measure soon to be introduced on Capitol Hill would require that all network providers, including the Internet and commercial on-line services, build in the capability to record any person's e-mail and deliver it to federal law-enforcement authorities. Government agents will need only to show a person merits investigation, rather than obtain a court order as is the case for telephone eavesdropping. (Business Week 3/14/94 p.55)