I hate the misuse of the term "data mining" that plagues these surveillance stories. On the other hand, it's forgivable -- based on the plain meaning of the wo

I hate the misuse of the term "data mining" that plagues these surveillance stories. On the other hand, it's forgivable -- based on the plain meaning of the word "mining", it's often a better fit than the "predictive modeling/machine learning" meanings the term actually has.