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What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program

Posted by timothy on from the starbucks-should-put-franchises-in-transit-zones dept.

First time accepted submitter Davak writes "In many ways finding the small amount of terrorists within the United States is like screening a population of people for a rare disease. A physician explains why collecting excessive data is actually dangerous. Each time a test is run, the number of people incorrectly identified quickly dwarfs the correct matches. Just like in medicine, being incorrectly labelled has serious consequences."

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  1. No time to read TFA by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    After glancing over the summary, I'm fine with doctors are experimenting on terrorist dwarves.