Nearly a year after Congress shut down a programme that would have allowed the Pentagon to data mine to read emails, other spy schemes that do the same thing are alive and well and sniffing. According to a congressional report obtained by Reuters, 36 of the government"s 199 "data mining" efforts collect personal information from the private sector. Fears that the Pentagon"s $54 million Total Information Awareness program would do just that and kill civil rights resulted in the scheme being culled.