http://www.thought-criminal.org/2006/10/04/domestic-spying-programs-alive-and-well-homeland-securitys-all-seeing-eye/....
There was an egregious program called Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program or Matrix. It was run by a private corporation and was federally funded, and would have been funded by Homeland Security. The program purpose according to the Wikipedia was to,
“Tie together government and commercial databases in order to allow federal and state law enforcement entities to conduct detailed searches on particular individuals’ dossiers.
The Matrix web site states that the data compiled will include criminal histories, driver’s license data, vehicle registration records, and significant amounts of public data record entries. Company officials have refused to disclose more specific details about the nature and sources of the data. According to news reports, the data may also include credit histories, driver’s license photographs, marriage and divorce records, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and the names and addresses of family members, neighbors and business associates. “
"In Congressional testimony (25 March 2003), a Florida lawmaker, Paula B. Dockery, described how the Matrix works: It combines government records with information from ‘public search businesses’ into a ‘data-warehouse.’ There, dossiers are reviewed by ’specialized software’ to identify ‘anomalies’ using ‘mathematical analysis.’ If ‘anomalies’ are spotted, they will then be scrutinized by personnel who will search for evidence of terrorism or other crimes.”
The program was scuttled after numerous privacy advocates complained and it had gotten too much press. We had all though that the MATRIX has been unplugged. It seems that this is not the case. The Christian Science Monitor blew the lid off a Homeland Security massive data mining program called ADVISE,
"We don’t realize that, as we live our lives and make little choices, like buying groceries, buying on Amazon, Googling, we’re leaving traces everywhere," says Lee Tien, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "We have an attitude that no one will connect all those dots. But these programs are about connecting those dots - analyzing and aggregating them - in a way that we haven’t thought about. It’s one of the underlying fundamental issues we have yet to come to grips with."
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