Filed in archive Legal/Legislation by Lori Widmer on March 24, 2007

Even the government can't get it right. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a data mining tool that allows for faster searches through mountains of data. However, according to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report, that tool may pose some very large privacy issues. The reason - the tool is designed to sift through data and identify possible terrorism suspects. The GAO remains unconvinced that the tool, called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and semantic Enhancement (or ADVISE) can disseminate information associated with people of the same name. Also, the GAO raised concerns that use of ADVISE could bring it in direct conflict with the E-Government Act, which requires privacy impact analyses.

The GAO has released its report in a 35-page white paper. To view the report, visit the GAO website.

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Response from: Arizona Payroll Processing (06/01/07 7:16am)

As usual privacy over national security is a hot subject. This is an article that states an obvious sentence: the government is taking away our privacy. A way to look at things would be to ask yourself what matters most to you:your own safety and the safety of those surrounding you or your privacy. A second way to look at things would be for you to realize that in fact you have no privacy and the government can't take that witch you don't have.

Response from: DIM 100 mg (06/26/07 3:56am)

When did the government got it right ? If they fail they blame somebody else it's simple as that.