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By Chris Strohm National Journal's Technology Daily June 11, 2007

House appropriators want to halt funding for a Homeland Security Department data-mining program until the department verifies that adequate privacy protections are in place.

The fiscal 2008 Homeland Security appropriations bill, scheduled to be on the House floor Tuesday, would stop funding for the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program, which is known as ADVISE. Funding would be withheld until the department submits a privacy-impact assessment for the program.

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By the end of last year, the department had spent about $40 million on ADVISE. According to officials at the time, the program was expected to be in a testing phase for at least a year and possibly as long as two years.

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