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GAO: Government Agencies Sifting through Personal Data
"Numerous federal government agencies are collecting and sifting through massive amounts of personal information, including credit reports, credit-card purchases and other financial data, posing new privacy concerns, according to the General Accounting Office," The Washington Times reports. In "More Surveillance Equals Less Liberty," Timothy Lynch, director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice, writes: "The war on the home front also has been aggressive but in many ways misguided. The assumption has been that there was simply too much liberty and privacy in America--and that federal law-enforcement agencies did not have enough power. To remedy that perceived problem, policymakers rushed the USA Patriot Act into law."
"Numerous federal government agencies are collecting and sifting through massive amounts of personal information, including credit reports, credit-card purchases and other financial data, posing new privacy concerns, according to the General Accounting Office," The Washington Times reports. In "More Surveillance Equals Less Liberty," Timothy Lynch, director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice, writes: "The war on the home front also has been aggressive but in many ways misguided. The assumption has been that there was simply too much liberty and privacy in America--and that federal law-enforcement agencies did not have enough power. To remedy that perceived problem, policymakers rushed the USA Patriot Act into law."