Paul Wilders
March 18th, 2002, 04:15 AM
{QUOTE-> The U.S. government is enjoying "a golden age of surveillance," says Jim Dempsey. From financial records to fingerprint data, federal agencies "are choking on information." And in the name of homeland security, Congress is increasing the government's ability to gather information.
But accumulating more data may not improve security, warns Dempsey, who is deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "The difficulty isn't in collecting information, it is in analyzing it," he said. Giving the government more authority to collect information is likely to dramatically erode the privacy rights of Americans, Dempsey said during a security forum March 15 in Washington, D.C.... <-QUOTE}
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But accumulating more data may not improve security, warns Dempsey, who is deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "The difficulty isn't in collecting information, it is in analyzing it," he said. Giving the government more authority to collect information is likely to dramatically erode the privacy rights of Americans, Dempsey said during a security forum March 15 in Washington, D.C.... <-QUOTE}
Read the full story here:
www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0318/web-ppi-03-18-02.asp