Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:00:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
To: john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov
Subject: support S.1484, the Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act

Dear Senator Kerry

I hope that you'll support S.1484, the Citizens' Protection in Federal
Databases Act.  This important legislation would require the
government to disclose its uses of private-sector databases in
data-mining activities, as well as any re-uses of government databases
that were originally collected for other purposes.  Because it
collects and correlates many separate pieces of information on private
individuals not suspected of any crime, large-scale data mining
constitutes a grave threat to individual privacy and goes against the
spirit in which the Fourth Amendment was written.  S.1484 is a
valuable step towards the restoration of individual privacy in the
United States.

Sincerely,

Matthew Belmonte
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