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N.Y., Wisc. Pull Out of Controversial Database Program
"New York and Wisconsin have joined the list of states that have pulled out of an anti-crime database program that civil libertarians say endangers citizens' privacy rights," The Associated Press reports.
"Just five states now remain involved in Matrix out of more than a dozen that had signed up to share criminal, prison and vehicle information with one another and cross-reference the data with privately held databases."
In "Protecting Privacy in the Database Nation," Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., director of technology policy, writes: "To safeguard civil liberties in the new surveillance state enabled by digital technologies, there are basically three requirements: (1) avoid mandatory databases or any form of National ID, because they violate the 4th Amendment, and because government's dominance of the evolution of these technologies would effectively destroy the privacy sector's ability to offer any privacy guarantees to us at all; (2) ensure 4th amendment protections even for surveillance in open, public places; and (3) avoid the mixing of public (compulsory) and private (voluntary) databases as new technologies emerge and proliferate."
"New York and Wisconsin have joined the list of states that have pulled out of an anti-crime database program that civil libertarians say endangers citizens' privacy rights," The Associated Press reports.
"Just five states now remain involved in Matrix out of more than a dozen that had signed up to share criminal, prison and vehicle information with one another and cross-reference the data with privately held databases."
In "Protecting Privacy in the Database Nation," Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., director of technology policy, writes: "To safeguard civil liberties in the new surveillance state enabled by digital technologies, there are basically three requirements: (1) avoid mandatory databases or any form of National ID, because they violate the 4th Amendment, and because government's dominance of the evolution of these technologies would effectively destroy the privacy sector's ability to offer any privacy guarantees to us at all; (2) ensure 4th amendment protections even for surveillance in open, public places; and (3) avoid the mixing of public (compulsory) and private (voluntary) databases as new technologies emerge and proliferate."