[转载]商业数据与国家安全(Commercial Data and National Security)

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In an effort to make better use of information technology in combating terrorism, the federal government is researching, and in some cases already implementing, new ways to use the vast databases of personal information collected commercially by companies in almost every line of business and by the data warehouses and aggregators that have become an important part of the information-based economy. The information available in private databases ranges from insurance, travel, and financial data, to records of retail purchases, to information compiled from disparate governmental records such as court papers, licenses, and property records.