Washington struggles with privacy versus security   Washington
struggles with privacy versus security  Controversy arose at
conferences this week, over whether technological measures
designed to protect the US from terrorism should proceed
unhindered or if such measures as data-mining programs must be
halted until there are protections to civil liberties in place.
Speaking at a congressional internet meeting on security against
terrorism and privacy, Paul Rosenzweig, a senior legal research
at think-tank Heritage Foundation, said that putting the brakes
on technologies like the proposed Total Information Awareness
(TIA) programme in the US Department of Defense is not the
answer to ensuring that technology does not violate privacy.
Lance Hoffman, a computer science professor, questioned whether
laws passed by Congress could keep pace with latest
technologies, including TIA and the Computer Assisted Passenger
Prescreening System (CAPPS II) proposed by the US Transportation
Security Administration.  He cited