ABSTRACT
Note, however, that while privacy has been discussed a great deal even at the Congressional levels, not everyone agrees with this definition. For example, I teach data mining, national security, and privacy at the unclassified level at the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association in Washington, DC. The students who take my courses mainly work for the Department of Defense and Intelligence agencies. For them, privacy is not the same as one feels about releasing, say, one’s medical records. It is my understanding that the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) idea of privacy is to ensure that the personal information of U.S. citizens does not get into the wrong hands. Even to other agencies, the FBI will release private information only if the agency is authorized to get it. In a way, privacy becomes more or less like confidentiality for such organizations.
