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Arizona’s Secret Mass Surveillance System: An Obscure Financial Database Amasses Millions of Financial Records in the Shadows
Loaded on July 1, 2025
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
July, 2025, page 42
Filed under:
Searches,
Search and Seizure,
Warrants,
Continuing Financial Crimes Enterprise (CFCE),
Domestic Financial Institution.
Location:
Arizona.
In Arizona, a secretive program has quietly amassed a staggering trove of financial data on tens of millions of Americans and individuals worldwide, all under the guise of fighting crime. The Transaction Record Analysis Center (“TRAC”), operated with oversight from the Arizona Attorney General’s office, has ballooned into a …
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