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Mueller: Tech companies should make products that can be wiretapped

Mueller said Internet-based and other technology firms "are very wealthy…they can afford to do it." "It" being implementation of means to tap electronic exchanges.

House subcommittee gives DOJ tech programs mixed funding results

Technology programs at the Justice Department along with the department's topline budget will take a hit in the coming fiscal year should a House Appropriation subcommittee gets its way, although the

Mueller cites threats from the Internet

Threats from the Internet rank high on problems FBI should tackle in the coming 2 years, bureau Director Robert Mueller told a June 8 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mueller's 10-year term

Q&A: Susan Landau on wiretapping and data mining

Susan Landau is author of the recently-published book "Surveillance or Security," which we're excerpting here . Currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University,

FBI pondering legislation to strengthen wiretapping ability

The FBI is considering a legislative proposal that could extend its legal ability to intercept communications in technologies that have resisted wiretapping. The bureau increasingly decries what it