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Title: Chertoff defends new computer project
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AP/yahoo
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310 ... us/homeland_security_computers
Published: Mar 9, 2007
Author: Jay Reeves
Post Date: 2007-03-09 21:22:39 by Diana
Keywords: None
Views: 98
Comments: 5
HOOVER, Ala. - A new Homeland Security program aims to analyze existing, legally collected computer data, not gather new personal information on U.S. citizens, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday in defending the program from congressional critics. The project, still in pilot stage, will help investigators understand evidence gathered through subpoenas but won't troll computers for new, private information, Chertoff said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's an experiment to see how you can better analyze data that you already have, that you've already legally collected, to see if you can understand it, sort it and make use of it more readily than simply doing it manually," Chertoff said. Called ADVISE — for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement — the program can be used to find "relationships or patterns" from information including financial and telephone records, he said. "This is not a program that sucks up or collects information from out on the Internet or anything like that," Chertoff told AP during an appearance in Alabama. "It's not data mining." Congress has limited the Pentagon's ability to implement a computerized anti-terrorism program amid privacy concerns, but Chertoff said the Homeland Security project is a "completely different program." Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wisc., has asked the Government Accountability office to investigate the ADVISE project, and both Republicans and Democrats have pushed for more oversight of government information gathering. A spokeswoman for the congressman, Kirstin Bost, said Obey requested the GAO rept in May 2006. Chertoff said a review of the test project would include an analysis of privacy concerns. The pilot has been going on "for some time," and no date is set for implementing the program, said Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the agency. Chertoff was in metro Birmingham for the groundbreaking at a new center that will teach law enforcement how to gather information from computers for use in court cases. The National Computer Forensics Institute will train about 1,000 people nationwide annually.
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#1. To: Diana (#0)
Another nearly worthless boondoggle that will allow Chertoff to reward his todies with $$$ ectracted from the productive. Reminds me of the Bank Secretcy Act, where hapless bank tellers have to fill out a Currency Transaction Report on every transaction over $10,000. Reams of useless info, but employeeing thousands of parasites.
More of "Big Brother," just what we need.
Well, if you can believe that, it's still amusing that he found it necessary to call it "legally collected".
Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is. ~George W. Bush Homeland Security gets so much money when this country is going broke, I don't know how long they will be able to keep it up. Then there are the costs for these wars...
Big Brother is going to bankrupt this country.
#2. To: Diana, Critter, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Robin, Aristeides, Red Jones, Kamala, All (#0)
#3. To: Diana (#0)
"It's an experiment to see how you can better analyze data that you already have, that you've already legally collected, to see if you can understand it, sort it and make use of it more readily than simply doing it manually," Chertoff said.
(About the quote: Speaking on the war in Kosovo.)
#4. To: tom007 (#1)
#5. To: SKYDRIFTER, robin, tom007 (#2)
More of "Big Brother," just what we need.
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