Send Story to a Friend



Florida Creates "the Matrix", a Big Brother-Like Surveillance System with Help From Choicepoint-Related Firm

Florida Creates "the Matrix", a Big Brother-Like Surveillance System with Help From Choicepoint-Related Firm

Remember the Florida election of 2000 when a private database company scrubbed thousands of eligible voters from the rolls? Well now one of the co-founders of Database Technologies is back in the headlines—he’s working with law enforcement agents in Florida to create what may soon expand into a national surveillance system. We talk with privacy expert Wayne Madsen, investigative reporter Greg Palast and a top intelligence official from the state of Florida. [Includes transcript]

Send this story to a friend
Your name:
Your email:
Friend's email:

Paste up to 10 friends' email addresses, separated by commas.
Message:
 
 
hint: if you can't read these two words, click the speaker icon
(the middle red button) to hear them; click it twice to try again.