Various national databases of United States persons, and their activities, have been compiled by government and private entities. Different data types are collected by different entities for different purposes, nominal or otherwise. These databases are some of the largest of their kind,[ 1] and even the largest ever.[ 2]
Accessibility of government databases may be controlled by various means, such as requirement of a warrant , subpoena , or simple request from another branch of government. Commercial databases are generally established for profit. Some other databases are available for free usage with various states across the United States. Typical instances include Colorado Resident Directory [ 3] and many others out there on the internet. Data breaches may occur as a result of a vulnerability or publication in error.
Databases
Government
Data types
Program
Collector
Nominal purpose
Contains
Accessibility
Known breaches
Contact and educational information[ 4] [ 5]
Joint Advertising Marketing Research & Studies (JAMRS)
Department of Defense
Military recruitment
Public school students 17 and older
Telephone call metadata
MAINWAY
National Security Agency
Military national defense
1.9 trillion call-detail records (estimated)
Assessed internally as "51% confidence" of being foreign
Consumer transactions[ 6] [ 7]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
at least 10 million consumers
data at least partially anonymized
Usual residency
Census
Census
assignment of federal representation
all persons
Confidentiality protected
Identity, citizenship, residency, income, employment, medical, incarceration, and contact information
Federal Data Services Hub
Internal Revenue Service and Health and Human Services
administration of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
all persons
Exteriors of mail
Mail Isolation Control and Tracking (MICT)
United States Postal Service
criminal surveillance
all mail
Request by law enforcement
Fingerprints[ 8]
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
criminal and civilian monitoring
104 million persons (including 34 million non-criminals)
Finger and palm prints , iris , and facial data (under development to replace the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System )
Next Generation Identification (NGI)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
criminal and civilian monitoring
DNA
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
criminal investigation
10 million persons
Income and employment
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internal Revenue Service
Tax collection
Federal taxpayers
10,000's of 527 organization data[ 9]
Private
See also
References
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Merline, John (25 June 2013). "Think NSA Spying Is Bad? Here Comes ObamaCare Hub" . news.investors.com . Investor's Business Daily . Retrieved 17 July 2013 .
^ Cauley, Leslie (May 11, 2006). "NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls" . USA Today . Retrieved 17 July 2013 .
^ "Colorado Residents Directory" , coloradoresidentdirectory.com , Retrieved November 24, 2022.
^ Gonzalez, Juan (4 September 2009). "Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens" . www.democracynow.org . Democracy Now . Retrieved 14 July 2013 .
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"Hanson v. Rumsfeld (Challenging DOD military recruitment database of high school students)" . www.nyclu.org . New York Civil Liberties Union . Retrieved 14 July 2013 .
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Sperry, Paul (3 July 2013). "Obama Credit Watchdog Snoops Personal Financial Data" . news.investors.com . Investor's Business Daily . Retrieved 14 July 2013 .
^ Dougherty, Carter (17 April 2013). "U.S. Amasses Data on 10 Million Consumers as Banks Object" . www.bloomberg.com . Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 14 July 2013 .
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"Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System" . www.fbi.gov . Federal Bureau of Investigation . Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
^ Malamud, Carl (7 July 2013). "Why We Asked the I.R.S. to Temporarily Turn the Lights Off on Section 527 Data" . bulk.resource.org . Public.Resource.Org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013 .
^ Sullivan, Bob (30 January 2013). "Your employer may share your salary, and Equifax might sell that data" . www.nbcnews.com . NBC News . Retrieved 14 July 2013 .
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Angwin, Julia ; Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer (29 September 2012). "New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates" . online.wsj.com . Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 14 July 2013 .
^ a b Pilkington, Ed (17 July 2013). "Millions of US license plates tracked and stored, new ACLU report finds" . guardian.co.uk . The Guardian . Retrieved 17 July 2013 .
^ a b Friess, Steve (20 August 2013). "How The NRA Built A Massive Secret Database Of Gun Owners" . buzzfeed.com . BuzzFeed . Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013 .
^ Acohido, Byron (26 September 2013). "LexisNexis, Dunn (sic) & Bradstreet, Kroll hacked" . USA Today . Gannett Company . Retrieved 22 October 2013 .
^ Yegulalp, Serdar (25 September 2013). "Identity theft service planted botnets in LexisNexis, other data providers" . infoworld.com . InfoWorld. Retrieved 22 October 2013 .
^ a b c Krebs, Brian (25 September 2013). "Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service" . krebsonsecurity.com . Retrieved 22 October 2013 .