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Federal Agency Data-Mining Reporting Act of 2005

Introduced: June 6, 2005 See on congress.gov
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Jun 6, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6106)
Jun 6, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6105-6106)
Jun 6, 2005
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Federal Agency Data-Mining Reporting Act of 2005 - Requires the head of each federal department or agency that is engaged in any activity to use or develop data-mining technology to report annually to Congress on all such activities. Requires that such report be made available to the public.

Defines "data-mining" as a query, search, or other analysis of one or more electronic databases, where: (1) at least one of the databases was obtained from or remains under the control of a non-federal entity, or the information was acquired initially by another federal department or agency for purposes other than intelligence or law enforcement; (2) a federal department or agency or a non-federal entity acting on behalf of the federal government is conducting the query, search, or other analysis to find a predictive pattern indicating terrorist or criminal activity; and (3) the search does not use a specific individual's personal identifiers to acquire information concerning that individual.

Mandates annual updates, including any new uses or development of data-mining technology.

What's happening now June 6, 2005

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6106)

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1