'Data Mining' May Implicate Innocent People in Search for Terrorists
Greg Gordon writes for McClatchy Newspapers:
In his first hearing Wednesday as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont plans to examine federal "data-mining" programs, the computerized hunt for terrorists that can implicate innocent people.More here.
Consider the case of American Airlines pilot Kieran O'Dwyer of Pittsboro, N.C.
O'Dwyer said Tuesday that U.S. Customs agents detained him for 90 minutes in 2003 when he got off an international flight in New York, telling him his name matched one on a government terrorist watch list.
Over the next 22 months or so, O'Dwyer said, he was temporarily detained 70 to 80 times by authorities who apparently were worried that he was a fugitive member of the Irish Republican Army.
(Props, Pogo Was Right.)
posted by Fergie @ 1/09/2007 07:05:00 PM
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