Congress worries that .gov monitoring will spy on Americans

CONGRESS WORRIES THAT .GOV MONITORING WILL SPY ON AMERICANS
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
A new Bush administration plan to capture and analyze traffic on all federal government networks in real time is generating privacy worries from congressional Democrats and Republicans alike. At a hearing convened here Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, politicians directed pointed questions to Department of Homeland Security officials about their plans to expand an existing "intrusion detection" system known as Einstein. Among other things, the system will monitor visits from Americans--and foreigners--visiting .gov Web sites.
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