VitalLaw: Federal Data-Mining Law Lacks Teeth, Needs Overhaul 

A federal law that regulates data-mining by executive branch agencies lacks teeth and should be updated to improve public disclosures about agencies’ use of data and guardrails around that use, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). 

“The Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007 was created to force government data mining into the light. The Act requires agencies to create detailed public reports of their data mining activities that seek patterns indicative of criminal or terrorist activity,” EPIC noted in a white paper published yesterday. 

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