Re:I wish this was a joke (Score 1)

No biggie, my responds was reactionary as well :) Our government is not really popular, but not a group of power crazy maniac thank the gods (although they do sometimes want to make huge & stupid decisions IMHO). I'm no expert, what I know I got from the media. But I'll try to answer your questions as well as possible. I do believe there is a log of what agency and which worker placed the data & red flags. I can only assume that there is also an access log. That log will probably not be available for public scrutiny, just from the people with access. This is because of privacy regulations. Otherwise everything might as well be on the streets, which is not allowed of course. The data stored would be checked by the workers themselves and when contacting other agencies about their data. Oh, almost forgot. They did mention very specifically that once a month, every agency worker involved in a certain case comes together to talk about the case in person. This would be a good place to do some error checking. Again, I agree that when abused it would be dreadful. But for now, it works fine. This is something to watch, absolutely. And I do believe this is watched closely. Should this go wrong I'll be one of the first to protest against it, but for now it's a working tool to prevent harm.