[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 26, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H7007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BIG BROTHER IS READING OUR E-MAIL

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, although it is 16 years after the titled 
date of 1984 in George Orwell's novel of the same name, Big Brother is 
really here and now he is reading our e-mail. Our constitutional rights 
to privacy are currently being trampled by government-sanctioned 
invasions currently over at the FBI. These privacy invasions use 
today's latest technology through the FBI's Carnivore system which 
monitors and captures our e-mail without our consent or our knowledge.
  What business is it of the U.S. Government what I say in an e-mail to 
my family and to my friends? We must never knowingly allow any 
government agency to use our e-mail to do to us today what they did 
with other technologies to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King yesterday.

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