Data Mining Information Request made to Homeland Security by member of
Congress
The Washington Times has an article on data mining, or "data
correlation", as the US Government is now calling it.
The article also discusses the state's initiative which is called
MATRIX and has avoiding much public scrutiny thus far.
Selected Quote:
The police database Matrix, short for Multi-State Anti-Terrorism
Information Exchange, has received $12 million in funding from the
Justice Department and Homeland Security Department. The ACLU calls it
a "radical new trend toward mass surveillance of the American people."
Matrix can root through 20 billion records on U.S. citizens and
connect the records with information from local, state and federal law
enforcement to identify terrorists and criminals.
Documents obtained by the ACLU from Matrix describe it as a
"data-mining system," but a Matrix spokesman called it a
"query-response system."
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