Carnivore has been in the news lately, and it’s privacy rights activists, not animal rights activists, who are concerned about this beast. Carnivore — whose name is changing to the less controversial ...

Is Carnivore by any other name as menacing? The FBI hopes not. The government agency has confirmed it changed the name of the controversial, e-mail sniffing software from Carnivore to DCS1000. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has effectively abandoned its custom-built Internet surveillance technology, once known as Carnivore, designed to read e-mails and other online communications among suspected ...