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ATF Seeks 'Massive' Database of Personal Info: 'Assets, Relatives, Associates and Mor

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ATF Seeks 'Massive' Database of Personal Info: 'Assets, Relatives, Associates and More'



April 6, 2013
By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.

A recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) reveals that the agency is seeking a "massive" online database capable of pulling up individuals' personal information, connections and associates.

On March 28, ATF posted the notice on FedBizOpps.gov, entitled "Investigative System." The solicitation was updated on April 5 with a few minor changes.

The document says that the system will be utilized by staff "to provide rapid searches on various entities for example; names, telephone numbers, utility data and reverse phone look-ups, as a means to assist with investigations, and background research on people, assets and businesses."

The system is described as a "massive online data repository system that contains a wide variety of data sources both historically and current that can be utilized in support of investigations and backgrounds."

The overview of the solicitation states:

Staff will utilize "a number of internal databases as well as external sources to provide timely and relevant information and intelligence products to law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local levels."

The system "provides a means to rapidly check records across the country" and is "necessary in assisting investigators, agents and analyst to find people, their assets, relatives, associates and more."

The ATF says they will use this system to provide information to Intelligence Analysts, Special Agents, Inspectors, Financial Investigators and Law Enforcement.

The investigative system will allow ATF to "obtain exact matches from partial source data searches such as, incomplete social security numbers, address, VIN numbers, etc."

The system will also have the ability to "link structured and unstructured data to find connection points between two or more individuals."

ATF Seeks 'Massive' Database of Personal Info: 'Assets, Relatives, Associates and More' | CNS News


Black Blade: They are already doing this. The NSA Utah Data Center will be omline late this year. Another agency or twodoing the same thing is just being redundant.
 
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That's a great idea!!!! Then we can publish them in the papers along with maps to "their" houses. Hey, if they can do it to gun owners by God we should be able to do it to the Leftists and their minions in the DHS/Fusion Centers.
 
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Nationally All heath care providers Had to go digital ...like by last year ...Now Yermamma care BS states this Also! Combine the executive orders ( DEA sch drug ) & gun legislatures BS are combining data bases/networks . ONE GIant Data base is happening now ... heath insurance/criminal/civil/banking/DMV...etc..etc ALL ONE ! comon NkoreagivdcaEPM/nuk on a wendsday mornin@ 10ish :lol:

BBil may be the arian have already done it but alls fare right ?
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yea--we got the DHLS with its giant electronic data mining program costing BILLIONS --it has been running since 2001, don't know if it has caught even ONE terrorist .

but it has tapped into billions of phone calls and emails of private citizens. the question is WHO are they really spying on with it?


now we got the Obamma care health plan which also wants to collect private data on citizens, and now we got the BATF with its billion dollar spy plan database.

in the last election both parties knew all about the voters, who they voted for, how much $$ in the bank, where you work, how old, sexual preference, and so on. the dems and republican partys knew more about US than ever before.


the irony is the man in control of our atomic missiles --can't even produce a proper drivers license or birth cert?

but that same government wants to know every little detail about you and your life?

what is WRONG with this picture?
 
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The FBI started building their version of this 25 years ago. It was widely covered in Information Week, Computerworld, etc.

That information is available to all DHS/law enforcement entities, including the ATF. The ATF just wants funding for their own toy.

Oh, and the NSA's database is even older, but last I heard, they weren't into sharing.

This stuff was all old news back in the 20th century. People didn't want to hear about it then. Now it is far too late. The newbie programmers who built the FBI database are probably retired now. The game has been over for a long time.
 
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