• Congress kills data-mining computer program

    From Otis Willie@warliby@pacbell.net to alt.society.civil-liberty on Friday, September 26, 2003 23:00:57
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    Congress kills data-mining computer program

    (EXCERPT) , By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES

    Congress has pulled the plug on a data-mining computer program
    criticized by privacy advocates as a supersnoop system to spy on
    American citizens and is closing the Pentagon office that created it.
    "The outcome is we are not going to have Americans picked up by their
    ankles and turned upside down then shaken to see if anything funny
    falls out," said Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat and leading opponent
    of the office's activities. "We won't see Americans on American soil
    being targeted under the biggest surveillance program in the history
    of the U.S.," Mr. Wyden said. A House and Senate conference committee
    late Wednesday agreed on instructions to close the Information
    Awareness Office (IAO) and included the instructi...

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