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Research Explores Data Mining, Privacy

An AP newswire article by Brian Bergstein, via USA Today, reports that:

As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy.

Largely by employing the head-spinning principles of cryptography, the researchers say they can ensure that law enforcement, intelligence agencies and private companies can sift through huge databases without seeing names and identifying details in the records.

posted by Fergie @ 6/18/2006 02:36:00 PM