By Ryan Singel | Wired.com | September 23, 2009 at 7:00 am
The FBI’s Data-Mining Ore
Composed of government information, commercial databases and records acquired in criminal and terrorism probes, the FBI’s National Security Branch Analysis Center is too broad to be considered mission-focused, but still too patchy to be Orwellian. Here’s the data we know about.
• International travel records of citizens and foreigners
• Financial forms filed with the Treasury by banks and casinos
• 55,000 entries on customers of Wyndham Worldwide, which includes Ramada Inn, Days Inn, Super 8, Howard Johnson and Hawthorn Suites
• 730 records from rental-car company Avis
• 165 credit card transaction histories from Sears
• Nearly 200 million records transferred from private data brokers such Accurint, Acxiom and Choicepoint
• A reverse White Pages with 696 million names and addresses tied to U.S. phone numbers
• Log data on all calls made by federal prison inmates
• A list of all active pilots
• 500,000 names of suspected terrorists from the Unified Terrorist Watch List
• Nearly 3 million records on people cleared to drive hazardous materials on the nation’s highways
• Telephone records and wiretapped conversations captured by FBI investigations
• 17,000 traveler itineraries from the Airlines Reporting Corporation
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