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cobalt123 14:11h

This just in to my attention: http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=03/08/07/05215530
See: website Plastic has an article contributed by a poster from the Washington Post story today. Privacy advocates? I would have thought we ALL were that, to some degree! "The MATRIX Has You" is all about TIA, and the US government is just using the $4 from the Justice Department to expand the project nationally, and $8 million in contribution from the Dept. of Homeland Security to this project to get around the TIA publicity. Same song, different singer.
FINDING OUT ABOUT US GOVERNMENT FUNDING FROM TECH NEWS, NOT FROM CURRENT EVENTS OR NATIONAL NEWS - HMMMMMMMM!

"The MATRIX (short for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) database enables investigators to find patterns and links among people by combining police records with commercially available collections of personal information about most American adults. The system began operating in Florida over a year ago and is used by at least 135 police agencies. The Justice Department has provided $4 million to expand the Matrix program nationally and will provide the computer network for information-sharing among the states, according to documents and interviews. The Department of Homeland Security has pledged $8 million, state officials said," MrTripps writes. "The project was created by Hank Asher, founder of Seisint Inc. In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI suspended information-service contracts with an earlier Asher-run company due to his involvement in a drug smuggeling operation. Another player is former Secret Service head Brian Stafford who recently went to work as a senior executive at Seisint.
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The original Post article on August 5, in the Washington Post TechNews.com section:
U.S. Backs Florida's New Counterterrorism Database
'Matrix' Offers Law Agencies Faster Access to Americans' Personal Records
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 6, 2003; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21872-2003Aug5.html

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Hiatus Coming Next Week
cobalt123 12:00h

For my friends, I will be moving next week from one Midwestern state to another. Will try to get a few posts in this blog before then, but will be active again the end of August. Just a lil FYI for Cowboys, Cowgals, and metabloggers...
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