








By Harley Geiger Created 04/01/2009 - 4:40pm 4/1/2009 Author: Harley Geiger [1] Security & Surveillance [2] Terrorism Information Sharing [3] Grandchildren: Domestic Intelligence [4] Fusion Center [5] ISE [6] Last week, the Missouri Information Analysis Center (the Missouri fusion center) retracted [7] a report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement [8]” which said that support for [...]
Dr. Bob’s Terror Shop The strange and scary story of the North Central Texas Fusion System. Forrest Wilder | April 03, 2009 | Features One morning in February, more than 2,000 cops, fire marshals, and public health officials in the Dallas-Fort Worth area received a memo—stamped “For Official Use Only”—that contained shocking information: Middle Eastern [...]
A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store, declassified documents obtained by Wired.com show. Wired News September [...]
In a Privacy Impact Assessment released publicly this week, the Department of Homeland Security's Privacy Office outlines the measures in place to ensure that “fusion centers” created to facilitate information sharing between law enforcement and intelligence agencies respect privacy rights. “Despite these efforts,” the report concludes, “the Privacy Office has identified a number of risks [...]