People might be interested to read about PROMIS, Ptech, and CARNIVORE systems as well.

Electronic Freedom Foundation [not links for above subjects]
http://w2.eff.org/br/

http://www.eff.org/cases/att

I posted this Google/Gmail information on another board and it made a few quite nervous apparently.

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Here are a few things many don't know about Google and Gmail.

I have heard reports that Google and Gmail are linked to CIA and/or NSA, and that Keyhole Corporation was actually an intelligence front.

http://www.news.com/2100-1032_3-5428685.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04..._evil_privacy/

http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01...bans_scroogle/

http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/YugoWarSats.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/kh-12.htm

http://scroogle.org/

Next time you use Google maps and Google Earth, look for the "downloading from kh0, kh1, kh2," etc. in your browser's status bar.

The toolbar is just creepy [in a virusy sort of way] IMHO, but I'm no stranger to IT. I prefer Metacrawler, Dogpile, momma.com, or scroogle, and I won't use Microsoft Internet Explorer (Firefox/mozilla are probably best now that AOL owns Netscape).