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Matrix Expands to Wisconsin
Wired ^ | March 9, 2004

Posted on 03/11/2004 6:26:25 PM PST by Prodigal Son

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Even as states retreat from participating in a controversial interstate antiterrorism database that holds billions of records of ordinary Americans' activities, Wisconsin has decided to join the program.

The head of Wisconsin's division of criminal investigation, James R. Warren, signed on to join the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, on Feb. 11, said Tom Berlinger, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which runs the program.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; matrix; privacy; wisconsin

1 posted on 03/11/2004 6:26:26 PM PST by Prodigal Son
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To: TomServo
You posted the last Matrix database article. Thought you might be interested in this one.
2 posted on 03/11/2004 6:27:23 PM PST by Prodigal Son (Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
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To: Stew Padasso
You might be interested as well.
3 posted on 03/11/2004 6:30:32 PM PST by Prodigal Son (Liberal ideas are deadlier than second hand smoke.)
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To: Prodigal Son
Does this mean that there will be less paperwork to fill out when they throw me into jail for not paying my seat belt fine?
4 posted on 03/11/2004 6:35:13 PM PST by gorush
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To: Prodigal Son
Matrix... wonderful name, guys... well, I suppose it's not as bad as the Total Information Awareness project's all-seeing, Sauron-esque eye.
5 posted on 03/11/2004 6:39:41 PM PST by Terpfen (Re-elect Bush; kill terrorists now, fix Medicare later.)
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To: Prodigal Son
Thanks!
6 posted on 03/11/2004 6:40:19 PM PST by TomServo (Stay together cheeks....)
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To: gorush
You REALLY need a t-shirt with a seat-belt painted on it!
7 posted on 03/11/2004 6:41:34 PM PST by WIladyconservative (Proud monthly donor)
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To: WIladyconservative
I was speaking hypothetically....for now. (I'm secretly anxious for the opportunity)
8 posted on 03/11/2004 6:45:42 PM PST by gorush
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To: gorush
Does this mean that there will be less paperwork to fill out when they throw me into jail for not paying my seat belt fine?

It'll just make it easier for them to look up your cell phone bill and find you with it.

9 posted on 03/11/2004 6:59:15 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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