Report: Government data mining has gone too far – and AI will make it worse

Federal agencies often collect voluminous amounts of data on Americans to fulfill their missions and better understand the public’s needs.

But a new whitepaper from the Electronic Privacy Information Center argues that increasingly sophisticated and invasive data mining is now widespread throughout government, allowing machines — and not humans — to determine how data is connected and used to draw inferences about people, government policies and programs.

The collection of data on Americans — and the use of software to analyze and connect this information for policymaking — are a “constitutional minefield, rife with privacy disasters and standing invitations for government overstep and abuse,” wrote Abigail Kunkler, a law fellow at EPIC and author of the whitepaper.

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