FBI defends email scanner to House probe Surveillance and Privacy from Government7/25/2000; 7:50:26 AM 'Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., called yesterday's hearings amid concerns from privacy groups about an ordinary computer filled with special software that the FBI calls a "reasonable balance" between privacy and law enforcement in an age where crime has gone online.'"Carnivore raises the question as to whether existing statutes protecting citizens from 'unreasonable searches and seizures' under the Fourth Amendment appropriately balance the concerns of law enforcement and privacy," said Canady, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Constitution panel. Rep. Melvin L. Watt, D-N.C., said, "There seems to me to be a growing level of generalized concern about Big Brotherism that I suspect is being fed by the increasing electronic world."...''FBI officials said Carnivore has been used 25 times, including 16 times this year. None of those cases has yet gone to trial, so the FBI would not disclose detailed information about them.'