ABSTRACT
However, note 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. e 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 FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) idea of privacy is to ensure that the personal information of the 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.
