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Total Information Awareness
"Total Information Awareness" is the Pentagon's vision of pulling together as much information as possible about as many people as possible into an "ultra-large-scale" database, making that information available to government officials, and sorting through it to try to identify terrorists.
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FISA
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is an expanded version of a law permitting surveilance of "foreign agents" which, thanks to the USA Patriot Act, now allows the government to use FISA to obtain the personal records of ordinary Americans from libraries and Internet Service Providers, and to conduct secret searches of homes and offices.
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MATRIX
Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information eXchange is another "information mining" program to find terrorists at the expense of personal privacy.
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CAPPS II
Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling System left no airline passenger unscreened, no record unchecked, no careful terrorist caught. The reauthorization, CAPPS II, (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) violates more strict European Union privacy laws as well, lowering them to Bush adminstration standards.
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Justice Department limits view on medical privacy (24k PDF)
Federal law "does not recognize a physician-patient privilege," the Justice Department said last month in court papers that sought abortion records from Planned Parenthood clinics in California, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington. Moreover, the department said in another abortion case, patients "no longer possess a reasonable expectation that their histories will remain completely confidential."
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Privacy in Retreat (20k PDF)
Personal privacy under pressure, as FBI now has a medical investigation team.
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http://zfacts.com/p/588.html | 11/20/08 13:19 GMT
Modified: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:43:57 GMT
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