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by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Delivered January 10, 2007.

Mr. Chairman and other distinguished Members, I am honored to testify before you today.[1] In my testimony, I would like to: 1) describe the nature of the challenge facing Congress; 2) offer a set of principles for both enhancing counterterrorism programs and protecting civil liberties; and 3) suggest how these principles should be applied to the employment of data mining technologies.

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Application to Employing Data Mining Technologies

First, we must always protect liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. From a practical perspective, there are two distinct types of constitutional violations to be avoided. It should go without stating, but we must never countenance intentional or systemic constitutional violations. In other words, we should design every data-mining system so that, if properly used, it will never violate constitutional rights.

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