Over on Concurring Opinions, Frank Pasquale responds to an investigative piece in the Washington Post:
In an article entitled “Monitoring America,” Dana Priest and William Arkin describe an extraordinary pattern of governmental surveillance. To be sure, in the wake of the attacks of 9/11, there are important reasons to increase the government’s ability to understand threats to order. However, the persistence, replicability, and searchability of the databases now being compiled for intelligence purposes raise very difficult questions about the use and abuse of profiles, particularly in cases where health data informs the classification of individuals as threats.
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