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MATRIX Database Schema Altered Due to Privacy Concerns

Posted by michael on from the matrix-treats-privacy-laws-as-obstacles-and-routes-around-them dept.

nusratt writes "Associated Press: 'The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange combines state vehicle and crime records with commercial databases owned by a private company, Seisint, covering half the U.S. population,' but there were 'questions about the legality of sending state-owned records to Seisint'. The solution? "Each state will maintain its own records . . . Software will search each state's records as necessary.' 'The new setup is designed to get around obstacles in some states' data laws.'"

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  1. Re:Another way to get around privacy laws by joltpenguin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I received an e-mail from the ACLU dealing with this issue. It sent a link to this showing how the MATRIX will affect so many things in our lives.

  2. Call a Horse a Horse by CygnusXII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Getting around a States data Laws is Computer Crime.
    Plain and Simple. Engineering the System to circumnavigate the laws, wouldn't that be an Inducement to infringe Data, and somehow violate the New proposed Induce Laws? Or how about The DMCA, or better Yet HiPPA (sp?)

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  3. Re:Security through software then? by nusratt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "but each state will have software that will only allow them to access information about people in their state?"

    NO, THAT'S THE SNEAKY PART. Everyone involved will still be able to get to the same data. It's just a shell game, to circumvent privacy regulations.

  4. You have nothing to fear. by Accord+MT · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You have nothing to fear if you're not doing anything wrong.

    For homework, your daughter is writing a report on the Middle East, and uses your library card to borrow books on Saudi Arabia.
    FBI records: INTEREST IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES

    You sell your old car for $7000, and then your motorcycle for $5000.
    FBI records: LARGE CASH DEPOSITS

    Your wife thinks she might have contracted malaria while overseas, so you look up the symptoms online.
    FBI records: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, RESEARCH INTO BIOLOGICAL AGENTS

    One day, someone in law enforcement presses the "COALLATE DATA" button, and you soon find yourself shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, never to see charges, trial, or your family again. And while you're sitting there rotting in prison, millions of your fellow Americans are still repeating the mantra:

    You have nothing to fear if you're not doing anything wrong.