What Does Your Fusion Center File Look Like?
May 10, 2012 in Featured
A selection from an individual "biographical profile" produced by a fusion center in central Florida. The subject's vital information and photo have been redacted to protect the man's privacy and the propriety of any ongoing investigations relating to him.
Public Intelligence
Do you want to know what kind of information fusion centers are capable of compiling on you and your friends? A document contained in the recent Anonymous/AntiSec hack of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office provides a great deal of insight into what kind of information is gathered and processed by fusion centers at the request of local law enforcement. The document is described as a “biographical profile” and was produced by the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange (CFIX), a regional fusion center serving a number of counties in Central Florida including Brevard, Lake, Orange, Seminole and Volusia. CFIX is one of several fusion centers in the state of Florida, part of a larger network of more than seventy operating all around the country.
When the Lake County Sheriff’s Office asked for a “workup” on a man being investigated for charges relating to child pornography, CFIX produced a six page profile on the subject who had no prior criminal history. The profile has a flashy cover with colorful logos and a graphical depiction of the man’s name, meaning that an employee of the fusion center did not just type the man’s name into a word processor, but actually took the time to produce an individualized graphic with stylistic highlights and shadows. The profile contains the following information on the individual:
- Name
- Social Security number
- Driver’s license number
- Birthplace
- Race
- Sex
- Height
- Weight
- Hair color
- Eye color
- Date of birth
- Presence of identifying marks (such as scars or tattoos)
- Address history (going back six years in multiple states)
- Phone numbers
- Vehicles (including registration information, tag numbers and Vehicle Identification Numbers)
- Criminal History
- Possible relatives and associates (including a friend and girlfriend’s social security number, last known address, place of birth, date of birth, driver’s license number, citizenship status as well as information gleaned from Facebook and MySpace pages)
- Work history (including address, charter number, brief description of function or services provided)
- Affiliated businesses (including address, charter number, brief description of function or services provided)
- Facebook page (including stated educational history)
- Email address
We have heavily redacted the report to protect the man’s privacy and prevent damage to any ongoing investigations relating to him. However, we believe the document conveys the extent to which fusion centers and law enforcement are capable of exploiting both private and publicly available information for investigative purposes.
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I have first-hand experience developing Fusion software. I can tell you that this article has too much fear-mongering in it. Any decent investigative team can find out a lot of the information through standard channels. It is still illegal for states to compile records on anyone without a criminal history. The standard limitation for applicant data (such as for gun permits, security clearance, etc) is 90 days — by law. A Fusion center is meant for agencies to merge all of their investigative data together. It’s not the same as a Federal system.
I agree. I worked in credit card collections for 2 years and there a very simple programs out there that can compile this information and more with just a paid subscription. I have pulled reports on people in FAR greater detail than this on a regular basis with just a few clicks.
Nice to see how the feds show up to defend themselves, thanks PI, you’re doing something correctly.
BS! “It is no longer illegal to compile information on American citizens?” Have you read the Patriot Act! 1 and 2? If you are designated as a threat or illegal combatant you can be sent overseas and tortured, and even killed, without anybody being told where you went, and if your still alive! Wake the HELL up!
Uh, everything above “criminal history” is given to the State by you in your Driver’s License application. This is more of a highlight of what State already knows about you. Work History? Ever post a resume in a job hunting site? There it is. Affiliated Businesses? Check the State licensing databases by social security #. Facebook? Yeah, that’s your own stupid fault. The mystery is why fusion centers are so heavily staffed IMO; one guy with access to the spreadsheet or database could find everything by filtering on social security # in a couple days. All the other guys must be there to attend meetings, support Microsoft Powerpoint, and build little empires.
I second the comment that this was well played because the feds showed up. Lol, hi feds. Enjoy your stay here, we know we do.
Second of all, what the fuck? They made a nice computer generated graphic of this guy? Words cannot express my laughter at the waste of money time and resources just described.
Not only do the fools have to needlessly dox a person from here to the moon with no priors, they have to make their own little artistic portrait of him too to put on the front cover just to make it look nice.
What a fucking joke, I mean really, and people are supposed to take our country seriously?
We decorate our suspect reports with works of art.
No seriously
What the fuck