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Senate OKs FBI Net Spying By Declan McCullagh

12:55 p.m. Sep. 14, 2001 PDT

WASHINGTON -- FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users legally without a court order.

On Thursday evening, two days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, the Senate approved the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001," which enhances police wiretap powers and permits monitoring in more situations.

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[Fred Mertz]

I felt that Internet privacy would be one of the first targets to tumble. I didn't want to say so a few days ago, for fear of being labeled a kook. Of course, one could argue that with Carnivore, Internet privacy was already gone.