today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 Alphabetical index (text) London, Eavesdropping Spies in the “Forests” Website comment: Last week, The Independent reported that a US spy agency had patented a system
for eavesdropping on phone calls. Now it is lab-testing software that can sift through calls and e-mails in search of key phrases By Suelette Dreyfus THE US Department of Defense is lab-testing technology that could make it easier automatically to sift through a vast pool of private communications, including international telephone phone calls, in a similar manner to using an Internet search engine.
The technology, called “Semantic Forests”, is a software program that analyses voice transcripts […]. WE regret that by letter dated a Ms. Louise Hayman , the head of legal services at The Independent newspaper, requested that this article be removed from this website. We have adjusted the masthead accordingly. The above news item is reproduced without editing other than typographical Register your name and address to go on the Mailing List to receive 1999