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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software.

02 August 2013

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"The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies' internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts."

See the full story: FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software: CNET has learned the FBI has developed custom "port reader" software to intercept Internet metadata in real time. And, in some cases, it wants to force Internet providers to use the software (link)

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