Is Homeland Security Tracking You... Financially?

OK, I found this interesting. Homeland Security is apparently testing a pilot program to track financial information. This program is supposed to track some possible 250,000 individuals that may have links to terrorism, drug trafficing, money laundering, etc.

Well, for face value, it seems quite interesting and a good project, but, sceptic in me just takes over.

I doubt that the quarter of a millin individuals were just typed into a database and searched by some admin at Homeland Security, so, what are the priorities that put someone on this list? How is the data mined?

I'm growing more concerned by such measures every day. Especially since none of these measures would have prevented what happened on 9/11.

Big Brother is watching.....
The link to this article from the New York Times with more info can be found on the New york times website