[privacy] U.S. Tested Terrorist Data Program Using Real People's Names

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Canada.com (CanWest News Service).

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A damning privacy audit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's
"data-mining" activities has found tests conducted on a new computer
program designed to identify potential terrorist suspects used real names
and birth dates of people travelling across the U.S.-Canada border instead
of dummy data.

Concerns about DHS's testing of its ADVISE data analysis system have dogged
the agency since March, when the congressional Government Accountability
Office first identified possible privacy violations.

"Like other data-mining applications, the ADVISE tool could misidentify or
erroneously associate an individual with undesirable activity such as
fraud, crime or terrorism," the GAO said in a report at the time.

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More:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3a644014-e50e-41ff
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- - ferg

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