United States Senator Ron Wyden on Wednesday called for the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate federal, state and local law enforcement access to a database of more than 150 million money transfers, citing concerns it disproportionately affects minorities and low-income people.Law enforcement agencies have routinely accessed the vast trove of money transfer records without court oversight, Wyden said.The Democratic senator’s office has been investigating the mass surveillance programme for a year and has found that hundreds of law enforcement agencies have access to the money transfer database, which is housed inside an Arizona nonprofit known as the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC).
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