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NPR Morning Edition, May 18, 2006 � The government possesses powerful data-mining technology to find patterns that could help catch suspected terrorists. But it must use it in a way that doesn't hurt ordinary Americans, the head of a government advisory panel says.

"The technology is very powerful and we've got to use it," says Newton Minow, who chaired the Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, which issued its report in 2004. "The problem is we've got to use it in a way that does not harm every ordinary American."

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"7 clicks of a computer mouse could have tracked down the 19 hijackers" , Newton Minow, May 18, 2006.

Minow says the 2004 TAPAC report, which was presented to the Bush administration and Congress, was largely ignored. He hopes the report will be looked at anew.

Read more on The Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, headed by Newton Minow, and its final report, "Safeguarding Privacy in the Fight Against Terrorism" (PDF), to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld in March 2004.