'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium

According to Slashdot, Guardian Unlimited posted a story yesterday about the FBI's interest in connecting its own database resources with other countries'.

A U.S.-initiated program called "Server in the Sky" would take cooperation among police forces a level beyond the current faxing of fingerprints. The FBI told the Guardian:"Server in the Sky is an FBI initiative designed to foster the advanced search and exchange of biometric information on a global scale."

See Guardian Unlimited Special reports .