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InternetNews.com -- December 2, 2003 -- IT Stymied In Terror War: Panel -- By Roy Mark

WASHINGTON -- Privacy and civil liberties debates are hindering the U.S. government from taking full advantage of America's technology to fight the war on terrorism, security experts said Tuesday.

The views are the result of the Markle Foundation's Task Force on National Security in the Information Age second annual report on homeland defense. The private panel of leading information technology and national security experts called on President Bush to establish guidelines to clearly define the security interests in the data mining research of private information and to provide controls to address the privacy implications of such programs.

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In its report, the task force urges the government to effectively utilize the often valuable information that is held in private hands, but only within a system of rules and guidelines designed to protect civil liberties.

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