The FBI Is Using Census Data to Create Racial Mapping Programs to Spy on You
The FBI is using racial mapping investigative programs to spy on you and gather intelligence, according to the ACLU. What’s worse, 
lawyers for the ACLU have filed a brief questioning the FBI’s secrecy over its spy programs, accusing the agency of using census data in its investigation.
The ACLU reports reports: ”FBI documents we already secured show that the Bureau is profiling some communities for intelligence collection based on false stereotypes that ascribe certain types of crimes to entire minority communities. Targeted groups include Muslims and Arab-Americans in Michigan, African-Americans in Georgia, Chinese and Russian-Americans in California, and broad swaths of Latino-American communities in multiple states”
The suit filed by the ACLU is an effort to learn more about how the FBI’s racial and ethnic program is run, since the organization says it has evidence that the FBI in Michigan sought information on people who were not suspected of committing a crime. The FBI has refused to release any information as it relates to its investigations and has sought to keep all such information private.
The FBI is attempting to hide how it is using census data, but the ACLU maintains that “Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act to help uncover information about government programs – not to let the government claim secrecy over census statistics that are already public.”
Whether or not the FBI’s tactics will eventually be revealed will depend on the court’s decision.
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Get used to it..black people have been getting profiled and spied on forever. Remember MLK, Malcolm X, Black Panther???? Now they have thrown other people in pot its an issue…boo hoo
Latrice
February 7, 2013 at 12:49 am
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exactly, now that muslims and other groups is being illegal targeted by these racist assholes, now people want to fight and complain. Where the hell was the aclu and others when the fbi was illegally targeting the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X?? this is not new we know who the real crooks are and it is not black people, ITS WHITE PEOPLE AND ARE FBI AND CIA
eric
February 7, 2013 at 2:12 am
This is exactly what the FBI does! I don’t see the problem, that is what they are chartered to do.
What was not said is everyone get to be under surveillance, it’s how they bust organized crime, it how they find terrorist etc. frankly they don’t do a very good job of it or we would not have all of the drugs in our community, the Russians would not be into so much crime and the Muslims would not be plotting the destruction of America.
If you suspect they are on to you, clean up your act immediately!
Onesilverbac
February 7, 2013 at 2:58 am
Soooo….where’s the spying and surveillance on KKK and Aryan-nation skinhead groups?
It’s discriminatory practice and bias not selecting all organizations. If you’re “the government” you can break laws and rights of citizens.
Mr. Ross
February 7, 2013 at 5:52 am
Mr. Ross, you raise an extremely important question. But you know that there is selective enforcement of most laws: if a minority does wrong, he or she gets a long jail sentence. If a white person, especially a KKK or Aryan Nation type,does the same crime, he or she gets a slap on the wrist or probation. It was always this way, as Vanessa BlkSultry Robison and Vanessa McClinton Taylor say. The government’s latest target is Muslims. The government knows almost nothing about Islam, only about the rogue Muslims who go against what the Qu’ran teaches.
Ruby from NJ
February 7, 2013 at 4:05 pm
I apologize. It’s Janet McClinton Taylor.
Ruby from NJ
February 7, 2013 at 4:06 pm