Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Congressional Hearings on Pentagon Data Mining Project Sought

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:53:11 -0500

Congressional Hearings on Pentagon Data Mining Project Sought

The Pentagon's Information Awareness Office is the focus of inquiries from
members of Congress. The office is working to design a system that can filter
through massive amounts of data on everyday transactions looking for
information that could give clues to terrorist activity. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) have sought further information on the
project. Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) plans to introduce legislation that would
suspend the data-mining effort until Congress completes a thorough review of it.
A coalition of civil liberties and privacy groups is asking Congress to stop funding
for the Pentagon project.

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