Using Consumer Data to Hunt Terrorists

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, 2002 @01:10AM from the misguided-sacrifices dept.

A reader writes: "Our biggest privacy issues might not be Internet auditors after all. The federal government may be using consumer data to hunt for terrorists, including private information with the cooperation of companies or individual employees. Apparently an IT/marketing employee turned over buying records from a national grocery store chain to investigators and the company hid that violation from its customers. The story mentions, toward the end, the Gilmore lawsuit that was discussed on /. but goes way beyond that issue. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0230/baard.php "

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Re:A Colossal Breach of Trust and Waste of Time by Blind+Linux · 2002-07-29 02:23 · Score: 2, Funny

The internet couldn't possibly be used by the terrorists, as with the amount of porn on it in every domain their eyes would be seared by a picture of a naked woman before they could download any sort of plans for a bomb.
With all the renamed files on P2P programs, Osama Bin Laden's buddies are more likely to download sorority sex kittens 5 than anything harmful.