ent people. The amount of guesswork involved in a sweeping search like these tools does insures that many "dead ends" and "bad leads" will be pursued. What this means is that the FBI will inevitably end up investigating (including search, seizure, intimidation, prosecution) innocent people. The use of a mass-level tool like simply insures that these will occur more frequently, and at a more widespread level. (Why it is bad for you#4)Carnivore is the most severe threat yet to our Information Age. Its implementation sets the stage for Government to have a truly disturbing role in our society- that of switchboard operator. If we do not stop Carnivore, we will be blindly handing the bulk of the world's information to Federal Agents, and trusting that they will not use it improperly, or overstep their limitations. These programs go too far, and that fact has implications well beyond the fourth Amendment and it is in clear and disturbing violation of the fourth Amendment. First amendment rights are also at stake since communications and associations will be chilled, if they are subject to government snooping. The government's use of such tool is troubling to many ways. Americans value their privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, and many see the government's use of such tools as erosion of these rights. The "trust us, we are the government" argument does not sit well with those already concerned with the growing number of traditional wiretaps and, consequently, the growing number of private conversations monitored by government agencies today....
