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It was widely reported that NSA is collecting and data mining a huge database of nearly all US domestic calls for the last several years to find potential terrorists.

The previous KDnuggets Poll asked what is your opinion of this NSA program.

51% disapproved the program, and voted

• this is a vast and unchecked invasion of privacy, and mining will be ineffective

• mining call info can catch terrorists, not concerned about privacy issues

KDnuggets readers, as well as many data miners, expressed disapproval of the current NSA data mining program. While data mining has the potential to help detect terrorist networks, this potential can be realized by a less expansive program that maintains congressional and judicial oversight of the executive power.

In the long run, our security will be better served by updating existing telecommunication laws to enable oversight of NSA data mining, than by continuing current massive and unchecked surveillance.

here are full results of KDnuggets Poll on NSA Data Mining.