WP Justice Dept. Database Stirs Privacy Fears

[williesgirl]

Size and Scope of the Interagency Investigative Tool Worry Civil Libertarians

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500483.html

The Justice Department is building a massive database that allows state and local police officers around the country to search millions of case files from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal law enforcement agencies, according to Justice officials.

The system, known as "OneDOJ," already holds approximately 1 million case records and is projected to triple in size over the next three years, Justice officials said. The files include investigative reports, criminal-history information, details of offenses, and the names, addresses and other information of criminal suspects or targets, officials said.

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But civil-liberties and privacy advocates say the scale and contents of such a database raise immediate privacy and civil rights concerns, in part because tens of thousands of local police officers could gain access to personal details about people who have not been arrested or charged with crimes.

The little-noticed program has been coming together over the past year and a half. It already is in use in pilot projects with local police in Seattle, San Diego and a handful of other areas, officials said. About 150 separate police agencies have access, officials said.



Read the article - it's expanding to 15 more regions right away. Here we go - most police state.

[shance]

1. Google IBM and the Holocaust and view the similarities

of the databasing going on now versus being secretly accumulated by IBM in Germany.

It was how they kept track of all citizens, what nationality, what religions, what income levels, etc.

Same thing is being done today apparently.