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Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet

The New York Times reported that the Administration plans to widen the scope of government sponsored monitoring of Internet usage as well as the use of surveillance, to counter possible terrorist threats. Further details of such plans are still under development, and would be included in the early 2003 release of the final version of The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (the draft, issued September 2002, is available here).
Strong concerns regarding these plans quickly were voiced by industry and consumers, and InfoWorld reported the same day that Brian Roehrkasse, spokesman for the Homeland Security Department, denied the statements made in the New York Times article.
See also this PC Magazine article, Bush Cybersecurity Plan Under Fire–Again.

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