新华网8月2日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，美国媒体撰稿人米歇尔·卡塔拉7月31日因谷歌搜索内容追踪而引来美国联邦调查局人员造访住宅。
米歇尔·卡塔拉诺是美国《福布斯》杂志、综合博客 Boing Boing及其他出版物的长期撰稿人，7月31日美国联邦调查局（FBI）造访她的住宅，根据其推特主页资料，该住宅位于纽约长岛。
“（推特原文）特别提示：要是不想看到FBI工作人员站在你家门口，就别在你的另一半刚搜索完双肩包之后，自己就去搜高压锅。
——米歇尔·卡塔拉诺 2013年7月31日”
联邦调查局介入的原因，也许是因为米歇尔·卡塔拉诺住得离本拉丹第三任妻子的堂兄的邻居不太远，不过她真的不太像恐怖分子。
此次事件向民众证实了美国政府确实在掌握美国公民的网络活动，对那些不看到联邦调查局人员造访自己私人住宅就拒不相信这一事实的人，该事件具有很强的说服力。现在，人们知道了哪些搜索项容易引发调查局的注意。
祝大家上网愉快！
下列是卡塔拉诺之后发布的推特信息：
“很严肃地告诉大家，在谷歌上都搜索一定要谨慎。今天的经历太吓人。
——米歇尔·卡塔拉诺 2013年7月31日”
“我只想说，今天来我家的工作小组调查员人都很好，也很专业，他们只是来履行工作职责。
——米歇尔·卡塔拉诺 2013年7月31日”
“谢谢你，奥巴马。
——米歇尔·卡塔拉诺 2013年7月31日”
2013年8月1日下午四时更新内容：
今天，米歇尔·卡塔拉诺将这一事件完整地记录下来并交由英国《卫报》出版。卡塔拉诺在文章中解释到，联邦调查局造访时她正在上班，她的丈夫在事后立刻打电话向她详述细节。
《卫报》记者联系多家美国机构，试图找出究竟是哪个联邦、州或地方调查员负责此次调查。联邦调查局称他们并未介入，调查卡塔拉诺一家的“是拿骚县（Nassau County）警察局······该局与萨福克县警察局有合作。”此次事件中联邦调查局和地方警察局的合作程度尚不清晰。
2013年8月1日晚7:45更新内容：
《大西洋月刊》网站发布了一份来自萨福克县警察局的声明，承认造访卡塔拉诺住宅系该局所为。然而事件迎来新的转变，卡塔拉诺的谷歌搜索内容的报告者是一家位于湾区的电脑公司，公司这一举动是为了报告“一个最近解雇的雇员”的“可疑电脑搜索项”。米歇尔或其丈夫是否曾受雇于该公司尚不得而知。以下是《大西洋月刊》网站发布的萨福克县警察局的声明原文：
“萨福克县刑事情报人员收到一家 位于湾区的电脑公司的报告，涉及一名刚刚解聘的员工的可疑电脑搜索内容。这名前雇员的搜索行为是在其工作电脑上完成的。该雇员在那台电脑上搜索的关键词包括 高压锅爆炸 和 双肩包 。
对公司代表调查后，萨福克县刑事情报人员造访了调查对象的住所，就相关可疑网络搜索内容的进行询问。该调查由萨福克县警察局的刑事情报人员执行，现已被定为非刑事行为。”
目前看来，联邦调查局与地方警察局的工作分界模糊得难以辨别，涉及恐怖主义的问题时，在两者之间划出明确界限是琐碎困难的。这片灰色区域能给双方提供一定程度的推诿不知情的顽固借口，除非面临记者毫不留情的反复追问，就像下文描述的那样展现：
“地方政府和州政府与联邦官员在恐怖活动调查中通力合作，与卡塔拉诺描述的类似。唐纳德表示，拿骚县和萨福克县警察局都是联邦调查局的联合反恐工作组（JTTF）成员。萨福克县还是一个 融合中心 ，一个地方性的与国土安全部联系的恐怖主义调查地点。唐纳德表示，并不是联合反恐工作组导致了执法人员造访卡塔拉诺住所。工作组授权地方部门担任联邦执法者，拿骚县和萨福克县的一些部门都有此授权，可以独立行动。但是，唐纳德说， 联合反恐工作组的官员，特工和其他代表并未造访该住所。 ”
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Michele Catalano, a writer for Forbes, Boing Boing, and other publications, received a friendly visit from the FBI at her home today, which according to her Twitter profile is in Long Island, NY.
Pro tip: don't do a search for pressure cookers right after your spouse does a search for backpacks if you don't want the FBI at your door.
— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013
Maybe she's only one hop away from the neighbor of the cousin of Osama bin Laden's third wife, but she doesn't seem like a terrorist.
In case we needed more proof that the U.S. government is in fact reading the contents of American's online activity, this should do it. That is, unless we refuse to believe it until the FBI makes a personal visit to each of our abodes. In which case, now we know which search terms tend to attract their interest.
Happy web surfing!
Below are some of Catalano's follow-up tweets.
Seriously everyone. Be careful what you're googling. Scary experience today.
— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013
I just want to say that the task force agents who visited my home today were nice and professional and just doing their jobs.
— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013
THANKS, OBAMA.
— Michele Catalano (@inthefade) July 31, 2013
Update (8/1/2013, 4:00 PM):A more complete account of the story was written by Michele Catalano and published by The Guardian today. In the article, Catalano explains that she was at work at the time of the visit and that her husband provided details of the visit to her by phone immediately afterward.
The Guardian reached out to various U.S. agencies to find out exactly which federal, state, or local agency was responsible for the visit. The FBI claimed that they were not involved but that Catalano's family was "visited by Nassau County police department ... They were working in conjunction with Suffolk County police department." The level of cooperation between the FBI and local police departments in organizing the visit is not entirely clear.
See the Guardian links below:
New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online [The Guardian]
My family's Google searching got us a visit from counterterrorism police [Michele Catalano via The Guardian]
Update (8/1/2013, 7:45 PM):
The Atlantic Wire has published a statement from the Suffolk County Police Department, which has claimed responsibility for visiting Catalano's home. It turns out that the Googling was reported by a Bay Shore-based computer company in regard to "suspicious computer searches" of a "recently released employee." It's not clear if said company employed Michele or her husband. Here is the statement from the Suffolk County Police Department via the Atlantic Wire:
Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee s computer searches took place on this employee s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”
After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.
It seems that the line between the FBI and local police departments is fuzzy to indistinguishable at best and that trying to draw a line between them is really a matter of splitting hairs where terrorism is concerned. This gray area may also be providing each group with a level of deniability that is virtually impenetrable except to relentless questioning by reporters, as illustrated below:
Local and state authorities work jointly with federal officials on terror investigations similar to the one Catalano describes. Both Suffolk and Nassau County's police departments are members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Donald confirmed. Suffolk County is also home to a "fusion center," a regionally located locus for terror investigations associated with the Department of Homeland Security. It wasn't the JTTF that led to the visit at Catalano's house, Donald told us. The task force deputizes local authorities as federal marshals, including some in Suffolk and Nassau, who can then act on its behalf. But, Donald said, "officers, agents, or other representatives of the JTTF did not visit that location.
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(原标题：搜索“高压锅”会引警察上门 FBI跟踪美国人搜索内容)
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