Carnivore use increasing since 9-11 attacks:
Wired: Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore

Newest Action (8-9-01): Use the ACLU's Carnivore Alert tool  to send a fax to Washington!! Previous Action (still recommended): We need to get loud- it's time to turn up the heat! Attorney General John Ashcroft is reviewing Carnivore NOW --->Let Him Know It Needs To Go!<---  Call Right Now: (202)514-2001 and tell him to stop the use of Carnivore, or anything like it, and let ISPs fulfill warrants on their own. If you don't care enough about your privacy to make the call (or it's outside office hours), then click here to send an e-mail and click here to send this page to your friends! Better yet- do all three things. It's a new administration, and we have a chance to get rid of Carnivore for good!
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New Pages! Statements and Testimony on Carnivore/DCS1000 Privacy Protection Software & Tools For ISPs: What to do about Carnivore Carnivore-Free ISP list Carnivore's siblings: Echelon, RIP, and more	» Please take a moment to call your ISP and find out their Carnivore/DCS1000 status and policy, then post it in our Check Your ISP section.
Q. : What is Carnivore/DCS1000? A. : Carnivore/DCS1000 is an electronic "wiretapping" tool, currently in use by the FBI at ISPs in the U.S.. (click for more...) "The FBI is placing a black box inside the computer network of an ISP," Dempsey* told the Associated Press. "Not even the ISP knows exactly what that gizmo is doing." (Source: I-Spy: Critics Blast Cyber Snooping Device 7-13-00) *James X. Dempsey, senior staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology
Q. : What Can Carnivore/DCS1000 Do? A. : Just about anything it wants, and no one will know but the FBI. (click for more...) Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director of the ACLU ... said that implementing Carnivore "is comparable to allowing government agents to rip open Post Office mailbags and scan every piece of mail in search of one specific letter whose address they already know." (Source: ACLU release )
Q. : Why Is Carnivore/DCS1000 Bad For You? A: Carnivore/DCS1000 is bad for you for a number of reasons: It's Unconstitutional It Threatens Freedom and The Internet It Sets a Bad Precedent It Will Harm Innocent People       (click for more...)