“Knowledge discovery technology is best understood as enhancing the efficiency of the information-gathering process. But it should not be seen as an end in itself; just as in the physical world, the enhanced scrutiny must produce tangible results before adverse consequences beyond the fact of scrutiny should be allowed to be imposed,” the task force report states. (washtech)

a report recommending the employment of IT tools such as data mining, link analysis, biometrics, and data integration for homeland security, addressing privacy issues in advance ...