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Florida's Version Of TIA May Spread To Other States

Posted by timothy on from the over-your-shoulder dept.

Annoying Cowwart writes "Looks like TIA is coming back, this time through the by-the States-but-all-together backdoor. Now called M.A.T.R.I.X. ('Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange'). See the Washington Post article for details. I wonder: do they have to try hard to find such apt names for their projects or does it come naturally? (For German speakers, there is another article about this in Der Spiegel.)"

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  1. Re:Scary quote by Khomar · · Score: 4, Interesting
    pledged to use it with restraint

    While that is all well and good, assuming that we can in fact trust this particular "senior official", what guarantees do we have that his successor will use the same "restraint"? How can we enforce this restraint especially in the current climate where all restraints regarding privacy and liberty seem to be expendable in the interests of national security?

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  2. Re:Overreactions by Efreet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree with you in principle, but I think we need alot more than just laws to make sure that abuse is prevented. After all, its the very poeple charged with enforcing the laws that we are in danger from. What we need is either some sort of watchdog orginization charged specifically with preventing abuses of this power, or (better yet) some sort of mutual transparency that lets *the general public* monitor how the police use this power.

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  3. M.A.T.R.I.X. by Master+Controll+Prog · · Score: 3, Interesting

    M.A.T.R.I.X. ('Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange'). where is the fucking R?