Matrix Database Program a Dud
Good news for civil liberties: Matrix, the multi-state police database effort, is on its last leg. It began with 13 participating states, and is now down to three. Today, Michigan announced it would leave the program.
...only Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Connecticut remain. State police also said they were concerned about future funding and unrealistic expectations to expand the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange.
The program's potential for abuse contributed to states' decisions to abandon it.
©ivil libertarians and those opposed to big government fear the breadth of data stored in the MATRIX will allow law enforcement to spy on law abiding citizens. Its data mining capabilities, for example, would allow police to create lists of people who fit criminal profiles based on their ethnicity, address or credit history.
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