IT Stymied In Terror War:Panel (Privacy/Liberties Debates Hindering Govt)

IT Stymied In Terror War: Panel
By Roy Mark


WASHINGTON -- Privacy and civil liberties debates are hindering the U.S. government from taking full advantage of America's technology to fight the war on terrorism, security experts said Tuesday.

The views are the result of the Markle Foundation's Task Force on National Security in the Information Age second annual report on homeland defense. The private panel of leading information technology and national security experts called on President Bush to establish guidelines to clearly define the security interests in the data mining research of private information and to provide controls to address the privacy implications of such programs.

The Markle Foundation is a private philanthropy that focuses on using information and communications technologies to address critical public needs.

Earlier this year, Congress cut off funding to the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness (TIA) data mining program that sought to capture the "information signature" of people in order to track potential terrorists. In March, another firestorm of criticism erupted over disclosures that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) planned to scan government and commercial databases for potential terrorist threats when a passenger makes flight reservations.

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will someone please think of the children!

Give up your privacy, while bushco. hides behind government secrecy.

It's all a fucking scam