IP Democracy: EFF Sues Justice Department for Surveillance Records

The EFF has sued the Justice Department after the FBI failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the Bureau’s DCS-3000 and Red Hook surveillance programs. In its complaint, EFF claims that the DCS-1000 is a successor to the “Carnivore” program, which intercepts information in millions of emails per second for suspected criminals.

Red Hook is a system used by the FBI to intercept and collect voice and data calls. Under its FLAG (FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government) project, the EFF filed its first FOIA request on August 11, 2006 and the FBI has yet to respond, violating the statutory limit for processing an FOIA request, the EFF contends.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on October 5, 2006 9:15 AM to IP Democracy