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Government Adds Consumer Databases To Mining Queries

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."

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  1. from the next-up-grammar-school-records dept. by BandwidthHog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Grammar School. Slashdot.

    They just about write themselves these days, don’t they?

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