EFF demands FBI data
p2pnet.net News:- The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is demanding records for the FBI’s Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW), the huge database containing hundreds of millions of entries of personal information.
The EFF lodged a suit against the US Department of Justice when the FBI, "failed to respond to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records disclosing the criteria for inclusion in the database and the current privacy policy protecting this sensitive information, among other critical issues," it says, going on:
"According to the FBI, the IDW was developed to collect a wide swath of personal information – like ‘photographs, biographical information, physical location information, and financial data’ – for use in anti-terrorism investigations."
Earlier this year, the FBI said there were more than 560 million items in the IDW, and that nearly 12,000 law enforcement agents had access to the information, says the EFF.
The suit has been filed under the EFF’s FLAG project, launched last month. It uses FOIA requests and litigation to expose the US government’s expanding use of technologies, "that invade privacy," states the EFF.
Also See:
EFF – EFF Sues for Information on Huge FBI Database of Personal Information, October 17, 2006
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