Are you familiar with the Congressional Research Service report to Congress on data mining in Homeland Security, produced in December of 2007, indicating that there are many issues with data mining for determining a threat from passengers? The report indicated that most of this was not correct and would not produce results, and had the additional problem of what they called “mission creep”, where the data collected would be extended to many, many other points of concern for the Canadians who are protecting their privacy?
