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“Fusion Centers” Gather Intelligence on U.S. Citizens
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2012
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2012, page 32
Homeland Security-financed agencies called “fusion centers,” ostensibly formed to collect information to prevent 9/11-type terrorist attacks, have expanded their scope of operations to include ordinary street-level crime. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently expressed concerns about a fusion center in Cleveland, Ohio, claiming the center’s secrecy and data-mining practices ...
Filed under:
Mechanical Searches/Scanners,
Computer Searches,
Videotaping,
Police.
Locations:
Ohio,
United States of America.
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