FBI's data-mining system sifts airline, hotel, car-rental records
Wired: Threat Level
The National Security Branch Analysis Center, a fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists, is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store, declassified documents obtained by Wired.com show. Headquartered in Crystal City, Virginia, just outside Washington, NSAC maintains a hodgepodge of data sets packed with more than 1.5 billion government and private-sector records about citizens and foreigners, the documents show.
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