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Gathering, pre-processing, entering, and storing information costs time and money.

Having more data about more people increases the risks of false positives ("Innocent Bob is a terrorist!") and false negatives ("Terrorist Ann is innocent!"); and raises the risks of faulty data being gathered, processed and entered.

So, having data about innocent people just increases costs and decreases quality.



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