Houston Chronicle berichtet über FBI Pläne für massives Datamining:
The FBI is seeking $12 million in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 for its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force to set up a National Security Branch Analysis Center, with 59 employees, including 23 contractors and five FBI agents.
Justice Department budget documents submitted to Congress predict the center will hold 6 billion records by 2012 and “the universe of subjects will expand exponentially.” That would equal “20 separate ‘records’ for each man, woman and child in the United States,” the congressmen wrote.
Besonders pikant vor dem Hintergrund der besonderen “Kompetenz” des FBI in Fragen der Sicherheit und des Datenschutzes:
_An FBI consultant was able to hack into classified bureau computers last year and access counterespionage and witness protection files and 38,000 FBI passwords, including Director Robert Mueller’s.
_In March, Justice’s inspector general found that FBI agents using National Security Letters “had demanded personal data without proper authorization, improperly obtained personal telephone records and banking records and underreported to Congress how often it used national security letters to obtain information on thousands of U.S. citizens.” The inspector general found 48 violations of law and estimated there were 3,000 violations between 2003 and 2005.
_The GAO found in 2005 that the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force did not comply with all privacy and security laws and rules for handling sensitive information.