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Report stirs fears of privacy violations
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 | By Audrey Hudson

Posted on 06/24/2003 10:26:09 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A report from the Terrorism Information Awareness program contains a major loophole that allows the government to data mine "everything under the sun" including medical and credit records, says the top Senate Democrat on privacy issues.

The report said the program to track terrorists will use information collected and analyzed that is "legally obtained and usable by the federal government under existing law."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creditrecords; medicalrecords; privacy; records
Wednesday, June 25, 2003

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