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Profiling by grocery receipts?
Feds eye personal commercial data in terror search
By Andy Sullivan
Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 31 — The U.S. government has discovered a powerful resource in its war against terrorism — credit-card records, hotel bills, grocery lists and other records detailing the private lives of its citizens. Government investigators are turning to commercial databases to track down and isolate possible hijackers and suicide bombers before they strike, raising fear among privacy advocates that long-standing protections against government snooping may be eroded.
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