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Article: Internet Surveillance
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Internet Surveillance
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LARRY GILMAN
Internet surveillance is the monitoring of Internet data traffic for information useful to government authorities.
Targeted content may be illegal (e.g., child pornography), politically suspect (e.g., human-rights websites accessed by citizens living under authoritarian regimes), or evidential (e.g., e-mails or voice messages exchanged by suspects). Because the volume of information passing through the Internet is large, Internet surveillance generally requires a software component that scans for selected patterns of text, speech, addressing, or usage, and which flags items of interest for inspection by a human operator. Countermeasures ...
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