Judge Sets FBI Email Scanning Disclosure. The judge has granted the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s request for expedited processing of its Freedom of Information Act inquiry into the inner workings of ‘Carnivore’, after Janet Reno had decreed that the details would only be revealed to a “group of experts.” EPIC and ACLU say the tremendous potential for violation of constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure mitigates for full and open disclosure of how Carnivore works. Once installed at an ISP site by court order, it “sniffs” or scans all traffic through the site, although the FBI assures us that only data related to criminal activity is filtered in and reviewed. How good are the FBI’s programmers at writing ‘perfect’ search filters? how invested?