Government Still Salivates Over Big Brother Database Created by a Cocaine Smuggler
For civil libertarians, the MATRIX conjures up memories of another data-mining project—Admiral John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program, which the Senate, out of civil liberties concerns, nixed in January 2003 before it launched. MATRIX, however, has escaped congressional scrutiny since it is considered a state program. And while MATRIX officials say that they are not using the system to create lists of potential terrorists, critics worry that nothing forbids them from doing that in the future.


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