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Government Adds Consumer Databases To Mining Queries

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the next-up-grammar-school-records dept.

mrraven writes "According to an article in the Washington Post the government is increasingly using consumer databases for surveillance purposes. " From the article: "It is difficult to pinpoint the number of such contracts because many of them are classified, experts said. At the federal level, 52 government agencies had launched, or planned to begin, at least 199 data-mining projects as far back as 2004, according to a Government Accountability Office study."

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Here we go by Luscious868 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cue the rants by the tin foil hat and the anti-Bush crowd (aka 80% of Slashdot).

  2. Here we go again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let me save all you leftists some trouble.

    1. Bush is Hilter.
    2. Cheney is a coporate mole.
    3. Global Warming will kill us all because the fundementalists refuse to accept it.
    4. Ahh... the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen. Most likley the 2008 election will be.
    5. Bush wants to listen to your phone sex.

    Duck and cover...the Tin Hat crowd will be coming out in force.