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Texas is Amassing an Unprecedented Amount of Citizen Information

By Jake Bernstein

The Texas Observer | April 24, 2007

Piece by piece, Gov. Rick Perry's homeland security office is gathering massive amounts of information about Texas residents and merging it to create the most exhaustive centralized database in state history, with no real oversight.

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