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- In 2006 the existence of the NSA call database was revealed. It is estimated that the database contains over 1.9 trillion call-detail records.
- Fusion center was started as a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007.
- The United States Air Force created, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, a controversial database, TALON included lists of anti-war groups and people who have attended anti-war rallies.
- In August 2007, the US Department of Defense announced that Guardian, another database organized by the FBI, would take over data collection and reporting which was previously handled by the Talon database system.
- Operating between 1967 and 1973, over 5,925 foreigners and 1,690 organizations and US citizens were included on the Project MINARET watch lists (among whom Malcolm X, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Martin Luther King, etc.), a sister project to Project SHAMROCK. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was voted by the Congress after the exposure of the latter.
- In the United States, the DNA Identification Act of 1994 formally authorized the FBI to operate CODIS. It was completed by the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, which was amended by the USA PATRIOT Act, Title V.
- Homeless Management Information Systems developed in the late 1990s.
- CM/ECF (Case Management Electronic Case Filing)
- The FBI is currently the subject of a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) because of a lack of public notice describing their database and the criteria for including personal information, as required by the Privacy Act of 1974. The lawsuits are a result of two Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the EFF in 2006.
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