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GovExec.Com Survey finds data mining widespread among agencies

"Eight months after Congress killed a controversial Pentagon program to comb through private computer records to sniff out suspicious activity, 36 other government programs are engaging in similar activities, according to a new General Accounting Office report."

" At least 122 of the 199 projects made use of identifying information like names, e-mail addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers."

Wired News GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive
"The report also uncovered 54 projects with data supplied by private companies, such as credit reporting agencies and credit card issuers. Of those 54 projects, 36 involved personally identifiable information such as names, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers, raising concerns about the unregulated nature of government data mining."

redux [05.18.04]
The New York Times Panel Urges New Protection on Federal 'Data Mining'
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"A federal advisory committee says Congress should pass laws to protect the civil liberties of Americans when the government sifts through computer records and data files for information about terrorists."

"The eight-member panel, which includes former officials with decades of high-level government experience, found that the Defense Department and many other agencies were collecting and using "personally identifiable information on U.S. persons for national security and law enforcement purposes." Some of these activities, it said, resemble the Pentagon program initially known as Total Information Awareness, which was intended to catch terrorists before they struck, by monitoring e-mail messages and databases of financial, medical and travel information."

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