Privacy apps quietly killed:
p2pnet.net News:- "Two cutting-edge computer projects designed to preserve the privacy of Americans were quietly killed while Congress was restricting Pentagon data-gathering research in a widely publicized effort to protect innocent citizens from futuristic anti-terrorism tools."
That’s the intro to an Associated Press story here which goes on to say as a result, the US government is "quietly pressing ahead with research into high-powered computer data-mining technology without the two most advanced privacy protections developed to police those terror-fighting tools."
Senator Ron Wyden, who won a temporary ban on using the tools against Americans on US soil "but wants to require the administration to give Congress a full description of all its data-mining research," remains uncertain about the nature of the research or the safeguards, says AP, adding:
"We feel Congress is not getting enough information about who is undertaking this research and where it’s headed and how they intend to protect the civil liberties of Americans," said Chris Fitzgerald, Wyden’s spokesman.
