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MATRIX - A Dossier for Every Person in Utah
jxs2151 writes: "According to the Deseret Morning News former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed Utah's 2.4 million residents up for a pilot program that gathers dossiers on every single man, woman and child and didn't bother to tell anyone. According to the article MATRIX -- Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange '...cross-references government records from both public and private databases, putting together a dossier on individuals for use by law enforcement.' The state's homeland security specialist dismisses concerns: '...any data gleaned for Utah's participation in MATRIX is information already available to law enforcement.'
The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"
Pretty please?
Where's my Tin foil???
Jeez...could they have picked a worse name to have sent the geeks into overdrive than Matrix?
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
sorry, we're at war with drugs and terrorism and a few other nouns. freedom and liberty doesn't matter when you are at "war"....
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
is somebody going to attach a turbine to George Orwell?
Just think of all the nuclear power stations that could be decommissioned as a result
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
That's not the only reason to be glad you don't live in Utah.
Hasn't everyone always been glad they don't live in utah?
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Is it anything like SCMODS?
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
ahh, the ol, Clinton strategy eh?
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Since this program is not a secret (as it is on /.), and the people implementing the program are widely believed to be the government, and everything the government does is seen to be legal (even if it isn't), then there is no conspiracy.
It doesn't make it any less disturbing.
I was about to post my thoughts about this, but all of a sudden there's this guy with something in his ear named Smith who keeps calling me Anderson...
I always wondered about that too. Let's face it, the whole mormon religion was created to allow Joseph Smith to screw a bunch of women in the 1800s.
Just wait till it slips out that the whole country has this "Matrix Database" thing going on. Oops, shouldnt'a said that.... Dubya's gonna kill me xDDD
Not to mention abuse of the DMCA, and any other law they can find.
You misspelled "fund."
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
"Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"
semi-quote from Aliens :-)
No... MATIE as in "Aaargh, MATIE! Thar be a treasure fer yon pyrates!"
That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! -NJ CoolBreeze
He did a little too much LDS at Berkeley in the 60's.
That's Bigboo TAY! TAY!
Utah built a thing called MATRIX
Dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dummmbbbb
They promise that they won't abuse it
Dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dummmbbbb
Mormons claim to be Christians, but their theology, doctrines, practices, and beliefs are not.
My imaginary sky-ghost can beat your imaginary sky-ghost because you deluded heathen don't know that eating shellfish or not mutilating newborn boys makes the sky-ghost really pissy!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
"The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"
Well d'uh. Never heard of an opt-out list?
Before everyone gets all up in arms about this as a potential invasion of privacy I should point out that Utah's social homogeneity meant that only 4 actual dossiers had to be assembled -- everyone else's dossier was a symbolic link to one of those 4.
"Provided by the management for your protection."