FBI confirms privacy violations
10 March 2008FBI has confessed to illegal tapping, tracking of bank translations and Internet-traffic of US citizens, informs AP.
FBI’s Director Robert Muller has noted that sources of the information are partially guilty in that - banks and telecommunication companies gave FBI more information, than was required. Muller earlier has already recognized, that FBI frequently violated the law gathering data, however for the last year the situation has not changed.
At that it is marked, that the inspector of Administration of Justice has revealed dozens cases of non-authorized access to the personal data of Americans in the period from 2003 till 2005. Also on results of the check of FBI’s activity in 2007 it was found out, that FBI has understated the number of personal data inquiries.
FBI has had an opportunity to shadow Americans without the sanction of the court according to the Patriot Act, signed in 2001 after bomb attacks in Washington and New York. For 6 years FBI and other law-enforcement structures in the USA repeatedly were accused of illegal and unmotivated collection of data on Americans and of an illegal infringement of private immunity.