You're going to hear more and more about the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness program, which is basically just a fancy term for broad-scale data mining. It's a spooky concept, even if the government makes guarantees against abuses. The ever-conscious Electronic Privacy Information Center has its head wrapped around the issue. Start with those DARPA and EPIC sites, and then catch the latest from the Washington Times. Senate Democrats are starting to get antsy about TIA, probably in part from this site, which seems to be the source of a letter-writing campaign to the outgoing committee chairmen. I think Sen. Russ Feingold has scheduled a news briefing for Thursday on the topic. No big surprise; he's mentioned high-up on that page.
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