In my ZDNet Announcements of the day the headline that caught my eye (after their subject line of If Oracle can buy Open Source, why not Microsoft?) was DHS program tries to connect far-flung information, but at what privacy cost?In the iECM consortium I am working in, the US federal government is actively participating as a member of the end user community – in other words they are an ultimate consumer of that which iECM is producing (I’ll post a pointer to the official charter later this week when it is approved). Intelligence (and I’m definitely overloading the term here), as in terrorism investigation, is one of the scenarios that comes up frequently, although other scenarios are equally interesting. The same theme’s exist in social services cases, CDC investigations, … It’s all about the information (intelligence) that we find by aggregating information. Even in the case cited here (and I’m definitley senstive to big brother concerns), presumably all of the individual pieces of content are totally accessible by the “people” who will be viewing the aggregation. But the sum of the parts in this case is much greater than the whole. I work in the information management space – THIS is exactly the problem Iwant to solve as an information technologist, and as a member of the iECM consortium.