Privacy Safeguards Deep-Sixed
The "War on Terror" has been used quite effectively to scare Americans and Congress into believing that the more privacy is eliminated, the safer the United States will be. Hopefully, we won't have to deal with the dire consequences that will occur when they find out how wrong they are.
Without fanfare, the government dispenses with two projects aimed at protecting the privacy of American citizens from official snooping. The work on more sophisticated data-mining techiques continues, however. [Wired News]