Americans leave behind countless digital footprints from everyday activities like making a phone call or using a credit card--footprints government agencies regularly track as part of their ...

2008 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com) -- All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data -- such as phone, medical, and travel records or Web sites visited -- should be ...

WASHINGTON--Senate Democrats said on Wednesday they will monitor the possible privacy threats lurking in data-mining programs created by the Bush administration, but avoided criticizing the president ...

Analysts applauded the intentions of a bill introduced in Congress this week seeking to place greater checks and balances on the government’s use of data mining programs to combat terrorism. But they ...

The federal government should systematically evaluate the effectiveness and lawfulness of homeland security-related data mining and behavioral surveillance programs before deployment, according to a ...

Congressional appropriators have directed the Homeland Security Department's inspector general to investigate one of the department's data-mining projects, saying it appears to lack clear guidelines ...

In a report sent to Congress this week, we Department of Justice describes six data mining programs currently underway at the FBI. Only one, it turns out, is aimed at terrorists. Despite Congress' ...

Dozens of government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

Dozens of U.S. government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary ...

Data mining is both an art and science. Roughly stated, the purpose is to extract useful information from data. Data mining has been used for many years and in a number of different ways, however it ...

Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Dina Temple-Raston about National Intelligence Director James Clapper's statement that NSA surveillance is "fully debated and authorized by ...