In today's Wall Street Journal...

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Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases—flight records,
casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange
students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data
about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it
for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited.
Data about Americans "reasonably believed to constitute terrorism
information" may be permanently retained.

The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be
given to foreign governments for analysis of their own. In effect,
U.S. and foreign governments would be using the information to look
for clues that people might commit future crimes.
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http://on.wsj.com/TdqzxA

Bruce White, CRM, PMP
Newtown Square, PA
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