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• Title: Is the U.S. Government's Mining of Commercial Data Contributing to an Erosion of Trust in Government?
• Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
• Release Date : January 22, 2007
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 309 KB

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I. Introduction Several days after the September 11, 2001, attack on the U.S., Hank Asher, founder of a Florida-based commercial data broker company known as Seisint, ran a new data mining system through the company's 20-billion-record database. He came up with a list of names of 120,000 people the system had identified as having a "high terrorist factor." Those names were then reduced to a "1 percent list" of 1,200 people deemed to be the biggest threats. The names of five of the nineteen September 11 hijackers were on the list. When Asher demonstrated Seisint's system to officials from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, they were greatly impressed. (1)

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