privacy concerns

One of the side effects of the information age is that personal privacy has become a major concern for average citizens.

And IT often bears much of the responsibility for safeguarding privacy and protecting personal information.

Government and information technology industry representatives on Tuesday discussed how to make the public comfortable with the increasingly sophisticated ways the government collects identifiable information.

Industry representatives, government officials, and consumer advocates discuss how to encourage growth of the identification technology while addressing privacy concerns.

When President Bush quietly signed the housing bill last week, it included some controversial provisions-- one to create a national fingerprint registry and another for electronic payment reporting.

Local councils in Britain are using covert surveillance legislation designed to combat terrorism to investigate such petty offenses as under-age smoking and breaches of zoning regulations.

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