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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&s id=28512&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:00 AM | IN OUR VIEW Dodging the MATRIX bullet The Daily HeraldIt's been said that if you go with your first instinct, you're usually right. Unfortunately, Utah is second-guessing its initial decision to pull out of an anti-terrorism data-mining project that raised significant privacy concerns. In December, Gov. Olene S. Walker withdrew from the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. MATRIX, as it is known, combined information from local and state agencies, such as criminal backgrounds, motor vehicle registration databases and driver license records, with hundreds of publicly available databases. The idea is to get as much information as possible on possible terrorists and other suspects. Walker expressed concerns about protecting people's privacy and how much oversight Utah would have for the system. Civil liberties advocates warned that the database could be abused to snoop on innocent people, á la Big Brother in George Orwell's novel "1984." Former Gov. Mike Leavitt authorized participation in the database before he resigned to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Walker, who was Leavitt's lieutenant governor, said she was unaware of the arrangement. Now, the Utah Technology Commission wants to revisit the issue and determine whether legislation is needed to give the commission or some other entity oversight for the state. MATRIX proponents say it will allow police to look up information more quickly and give them better information. That may be true, but the potential for abuse looms large. MATRIX is eerily similar to the Pentagon's proposed Total Information Awareness program, created by Iran-Contra conspirator John Poindexter to sift through all kinds of information, public and private, to determine who is a terrorist. That program was scrapped because of the potential invasion of privacy created by going through Americans' personal data. While MATRIX would only use public records and only track criminal or terror suspects, future political circumstances cannot be guaranteed. Legislative oversight provides little reassurance. History has shown that power corrupts, and the powers granted by MATRIX are just a bit too tempting for comfort. Even relatively innocuous U.S. Census data aided paranoid U.S. officials in tracking down Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast during World War II and shipping them to internment camps such as the one at Topaz in Millard County. Who is to say that government may not use MATRIX to resurrect TIA quietly, or turn its data-mining activity to private records, or convert it into a means of tracking critics of the government? The Sept. 11 attacks didn't occur because government was unable to get a look at the credit histories of Muslims. The FBI and CIA dropped the ball because they didn't communicate with each other, a problem we believe Congress has now solved. A broad and aggressive grab for private information goes too far. Walker was right. Utah needs to keep MATRIX unplugged. This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A6. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! 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