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The '''Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program''', otherwise known as the "Matrix", was terminated in April 2005. [http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/15324prs20050415.html]

An April 15, 2005, press release issued by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, "which spearheaded the program, announced the program's shutdown. In 2003, a top Florida police official told the ''Washington Post'' that the program was so powerful that it was 'scary' and that 'it could be abused. I mean, I can call up everything about you, your pictures and pictures of your neighbors.'" [http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/15324prs20050415.html]