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The MATRIX, a controversial law enforcement database designed to collate states' public records and commercial records, ran out of money April 15.
Civil liberties groups targeted the system as a state run successor to the Total Information Awareness system. The ACLU used FOIA to acquire documents showing the system was designed to use predictive data-mining (think pre-crime).
Florida officials now say that this capability was never given to the 13 participating states.
Even though federal funding has run out, Florida wants to begin anew, this time with a few changes.
Instead of a central database, Florida wants a system that can search databases remotely. This should improve accuracy and cut down on costs for other states -- though it will significantly impact the system's speed.
Florida is also looking to add data it did not have before -- specifically insurance data. What that actually means is hard to know.
There's more for those of you interested in my story in today's Wired News.
Posted by Ryan Singel at April 25, 2005 09:35 AM
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