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Fighting Terrorism Wirelessly |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / HOMELAND SECURITY |
| Author: Gene J. Koprowski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 945 Words, 6,164 Characters |
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A consumer uses his smart phone to make a wireless purchase of a curious product over the Internet on eBay.com. Just a few hours earlier, someone using that very same mobile phone number had called a shadowy figure in Khartoum, capital of Sudan. Should the data from the eBay transaction be integrated into a national database for national security purposes, allowing CIA or National Security Agency investigators potentially to connect the dots and unveil an emerging plot by a suspected terrorist?
Such questions are relevant to an emerging debate over civil liberties in today's post-September 11, 2001, digital world. "For national security in the Information Age, there is talk of a shared network so we can better connect the dots," said Rob Atkinson, director...
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...ied."
Atkinson acknowledged the new technologies would increase the government's power, which was risky. "In the old days, civil libertarians could get by on the fact that the government was inept--they couldn't find people anyway. But that's not the case anymore. It's clear the government can do it now," Atkinson said. "We need to have the right rules."
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