U.S. Still Mining Terror Data
In a world where Osama Bin Laden is not flagged by CAPPS, do we really want John Poindexter combing through private records to decide who is friend and who is foe? Obviously not, said Congress. However, it seems that the wishes of the American people to keep their privacy are irrelevant. One has to wonder how long it will be before the NEA is listed and your local second grade teacher arrested and interrogated.
When Congress deep-sixed the Total Information Awareness program for fear it would compromise individual privacy, the government simply moved its research to various intelligence offices. [Wired News]