'National Dragnet' is a Click Away

'National Dragnet' is a Click Away

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As federal authorities struggled to meet information-sharing mandates after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, police agencies from Alaska and California to the Washington region poured millions of criminal and investigative records into shared digital repositories called data warehouses, giving investigators and analysts new power to discern links among people, patterns of behavior and other hidden clues.

Those network efforts will begin expanding further this month, as some local and state agencies connect to a fledgling Justice Department system called the National Data Exchange, or N-DEx. Federal authorities hope N-DEx will become what one called a "one-stop shop" enabling federal law enforcement, counterterrorism and intelligence analysts to automatically examine the enormous caches of local and state records for the first time.

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Yaaay...One step closer to a total police state. Now cops are going to be an extension of our gov-spying on everything we do, and reporting back to them, and vise-versa. Pretty soon we won't be able to use the commode without them peep-holing us. It's getting worse and worse...

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[edit on 6-3-2008 by DimensionalDetective]