Who's Your Big Brother?

A report released by the ACLU this week details how the US government is getting around restrictions on privacy: buy (or sieze) the information from US business. Data mining has been lucrative for American companies, but are they violating citizen's rights by selling this information? Although the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibits the government from keeping dossiers on Americans unless they are the specific target of an investigation, the government circumvents the legislation by piggybacking on private-sector data collection. Just be glad they aren't sharing allo that info with your parents (yet).

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