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FBI Data Mining For More Than Just Terrorists
jcatcw writes "Computerworld reports that the FBI is using data mining programs to track more than just terrorists. The program's original focus was to identify potential terrorists, but additional patterns have been developed for identity theft rings, fraudulent housing transactions, Internet pharmacy fraud, automobile insurance fraud, and health-care-related fraud. From the article: 'In a statement, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the report [on the data mining] was four months late and raised more questions than it answered. The report "demonstrates just how dramatically the Bush administration has expanded the use of [data mining] technology, often in secret, to collect and sift through Americans' most sensitive personal information," he said. At the same time, the report provides an "important and all-too-rare ray of sunshine on the department's data mining activities," Leahy said. It would give Congress a way to conduct "meaningful oversight" he said.'"
Ha. Tomorrow the FBI will tell us that they're using that data to find pedophiles online, so it'll all be OK.
I mean, if they don't think of the children, who will?
We should also outlaw axes. Because if you ever turned into a homicidal axe murderer, how long do you think it would be before you kill someone?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Do you even bother to look at the site, you know, just to check that the story hasn't been posted already?
Wouldn't that constitute data mining? I believe the Slashdot editors are ethically opposed to that sort of activity.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
No, only homophobes, and/or people with a militant 'gay' agenda, should be prohibited from owning an axe. All others will merely be required to 'register' all their axes.
So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day? So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day? So if a story is "valid" we should just keep repeating it every day?