Eyeing the Spying to Guard Americans' Privacy
Greg Gordon writes on Nukes & Spooks:
To carry out a recommendation from the Sept. 11 Commission aimed at preventing terrorists from ever again capitalizing on the lack of U.S. intelligence sharing, the Department of Homeland Security has since 2004 quietly facilitated the creation of 58 to 60 "fusion centers" that blend local, regional, state and federal agents.More here.
One pregnant question has been how closely these agencies have been observing state and federal privacy laws as information, sucked up from eavesdropping, informants, surveillance and government records, flows among the feds, state and local agencies down to cops on the beat.
In a Privacy Impact Assessment released today, Homeland Security officials ticked off no fewer than seven ways in which each center, with its own organizational structure, poses risks to Americans’ privacy.
posted by Fergie @ 12/22/2008 05:26:00 PM
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