Advocate Urges Senate to Update Privacy Laws to Protect Citizens From Government Data Mining

ADVOCATE URGES SENATE TO UPDATE LAWS TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM GOVERNMENT DATA MINING
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR: Michael Sniffen]
The government's ability to use computers to gather personal information about citizens and act on it has far outstripped the federal laws designed to protect them from secret federal dossiers, a privacy advocate told Congress on Wednesday. Leslie Harris, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to update the Privacy Act and other laws to keep pace with the Digital Age. She was among a handful of think-tank scholars and privacy advocates who testified Wednesday about government data-mining -- the computerized searching of large banks of information for clues to the identity of terrorists or criminals. Their broadest area of agreement was that Congress needs to know much more about what the government is doing in data-mining.
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