Over 500 million records are in the Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LinX, ranging from criminal histories and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred.
LinX is a national information-sharing hub for federal, state and local law enforcement agencies run by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. It is raising concerns among some military law experts that putting such detailed data about ordinary citizens in the hands of military officials crosses the line that generally prohibits the armed forces from conducting civilian law enforcement operations.
Recent disclosures of the National Security Agency spying on Americans, and the CIA allegedly spying on Congress heightens fears.
Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale Law School, called LinX “domestic spying.”
“Clearly, it cannot be right that any part of the Navy is collecting traffic citation information,” Fidell said. “This sounds like something from a third-world country, where you have powerful military intelligence watching everybody.”
LinX administrators say it is nothing more than an information-sharing network that connects records from participating police departments across the country. I thinl communist Poland had a similar system.
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