The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved an amendment to the 2005 Homeland Security Department spending bill. The amendment requires all federal agencies that use data-mining technologies to submit a privacy impacts report to Congress. For more information, see: Senate votes for privacy study on agencies’ data-mining use.

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