[e-privacy] [NEWS] Senate votes to ax computer dragnet funds

[Andrea Glorioso]

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1027103.html?tag=fd_top

Senate votes to ax computer dragnet funds

By Reuters
July 17, 2003, 8:15 PM PT

WASHINGTON--The  U.S. Senate voted Thursday to  cut  off funding for a
widely criticized computer-surveillance program that would comb travel
records,   credit-card bills and other  private   records to sniff out
suspected terrorists.

In a military spending bill it  passed unanimously, the Senate forbade
the Defense Department to spend any portion of its $369 billion budget
on  the Terrorism Information    Awareness program, brushing  aside  a
request by the Bush administration to keep development efforts intact.

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