ABSTRACT
Note, however, that although privacy has been discussed a great deal even at the congressional levels, not everyone agrees with this definition. For example, I teach courses at the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association in Washington, D.C. on data mining, national security, and privacy at the unclassified level. 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, his or her medical records. It is my understanding that the idea of privacy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 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 that information. In a way, privacy becomes more or less like confidentiality for such organizations.
