Big Brother is Looking At your Financial Data
The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with a wide ranging computer database that is intended to match a list of 250,000 persons and companies suspected of having ties to terrorism with financial transactions. This is just the most recent effort by domestic law enforcement agencies to employ technology to enhance their ability to engage in surveillance of citizens.
Homeland Security Department Experiments With New Tool to Track Financial Crime, New York Times, December 12, 2004.
