FC: House panel will meet to consider privacy, data mining

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 11:38:37 -0400
To: declan () well com
From: Stephen Cobb <scobb () cobb com>
Subject: House subcommittee to look at privacy v. data mining
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030507083805.0212ce48 () mail well com>

Declan

People may like to know that the House subcommittee on technology and 
information policy will be meeting in two weeks to take a look at the 
privacy and personal freedom questions raised by data mining (see story below).

The Subcommitte Chairman is Adam Putnam, R-Fla, and folks may want to 
contact him with their opinions, and offers to testify.

Stephen

eWeek, May 6, 2003
Data Mining Proponents Defend Technology
By Caron Carlson
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=41355,00.asp

The government now calls it "factual data analysis," but data mining by any 
other name smells as potentially rotten to civil liberties advocates.
...
Tuesday, the House subcommittee on technology and information policy, heard 
from three federal proponents of the technology to consider whether it 
enhances national security. Civil liberties activists are urging Congress 
to increase its role in overseeing the government's use of such technologies.
...
Subcommitte Chairman Adam Putnam, R- Fla., said the subcommittee panel will 
meet in two weeks to take a look at the privacy and personal freedom 
questions raised by data mining. 




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