wired.com — A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store.
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ninhSep 23, 2009
And who would be surprised by that? Lend a finger, lose an arm.
madrigaelicSep 23, 2009
Nice work by Singel digging into this program and using FOIA to get the goods on it.
smacksawSep 24, 2009
Cue the fake-ass libertarians who want are all lathered up about national security, but could give a damn about civil liberties. I bet if we told them the Obama administration was using the data to help deny health care to Republicans, they'd be against it.
jacquessnymanSep 25, 2009
Be aware that unless you're dealing in cash, and not submitting your identification number/s and details, you are being tracked and traced all the way......big brother is watching you, so make sure you don't exhinit behaviour that may get you flagged as an "undesirable"!!!!!!!!!!!