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Subject: New Matrix revelations
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:10:35 -0400
From: Stanley, Jay <jstanley@private>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
Declan,
The ACLU has obtained new documents on the Matrix data-mining program.
Among our findings:
** The Department of Homeland Security not only financed the Matrix
program, as has previously been reported, but actually assumed
managerial control.
** Florida Governor Jeb Bush has personally taken a lead role in
selling the program.
** Vice President Cheney was given a personal briefing on and plea
for support for the Matrix program by Governor Bush in January 2003.
** New details about the centrality of data mining in the program -
publicly denied by Matrix officials - including something called "High
Terrorist Factor scores."
** The company that runs Matrix provided the authorities with a list
of 120,000 names of individuals who scored highly on this "High
Terrorist Factor" analysis.
A brief white paper discussing the revelations as well as a release, the
documents themselves, and other materials, are online at www.aclu.org/matrix
For your list, if you wish.
Best,
Jay
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Jay Stanley
Communications Director, Technology and Liberty Program
American Civil Liberties Union
202-715-0818
Fax 202-546-0738
www.aclu.org/privacy
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