Jim Flowers' Radio Weblog


  Thursday, February 06, 2003


TIA continues to raise concerns

Bush's database faces privacy, not technical, concerns [InfoWorld: Top News]

...But data-mining experts Ramakrishnan and Piovoso agreed that such a data-mining system could raise privacy concerns. "Certainly there is the potential for abuse," Piovoso said. "You're putting a lot of faith in government that it's not going to abuse that power.

"It's a sad situation, in my opinion," he added. "We're asked to give up some of our freedoms in order to gain more security, and one of the dangers of that is you may never get it back again."


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