It's also the company that gave Florida to Bush in 2000 by virtue of its "scrubbing" of voter lists.The nation's giant in personal-information collection, which announced recently that it had unwittingly handed at least 145,000 Americans' Social Security numbers and other private records to a ring of crooks, is also a major government contractor, providing the tools in sophisticated homeland security screening and law enforcement surveillance efforts.[...]
Erick Stakelbeck, senior writer for the Investigative Project, a Washington D.C-based counter-terrorism think tank, said it would be just as possible under these circumstances for potential terrorists to steal identities and use them to carry out actions against Americans.
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You think?"If a company this central to this [surveillance] process is this careless, I think we should definitely step back and wonder about data mining."
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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