Data mining and the PA... and you

I was doing some research on data mining and I ran across this article. i wasn't sure where to put it so I dumped it here. It covers the PA and what kind of info the government wants:

"Still, many banks and securities firms are taking a go-slow approach when it comes to buying technology to address requirements of the USA Patriot Act, which requires financial companies to know the identities of their new customers as of Oct. 1. By contrast, these companies seem to be more focused on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's corporate accounting requirements, which are still a year away and, for the most part, don't even apply to them. "

www.computerworld.com...

There is so much info out there and it is held by so many people and organizations I wonder sometime if the biggest problem is not finding out something but sorting the data itself.