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To: Lane3 who wrote (8559)	1/9/2006 2:48:52 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541528

I am not familiar enough with the laws surrounding commercial data to say 100% what I would be comfortable with. The main problem with profiling, as a Harvard law professor once explained to me in excruciating detail, is that law enforcement really doesn't have sound predictive models of human behavior. They profile in all kinds of contradictory ways. You travel too much, you travel too little, you visit these countries, you don't visit those countries, you live alone, you live with large groups, whatever. I am uncomfortable with the notion that a bunch of DHS bureaucrats are going to sit down with everyone's credit card records and start trying to infer potential criminal behavior from them. Mostly because I think they are vastly incompetent for the job, and the policies they used would be steered by more bureaucrats or political appointees with ideological agendas. How could you see data mining being used effectively? Which databases should they use - shopping, phone calls, immigration?

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