The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) is the U.S. government's central database on known or suspected ''international'' terrorists, and contains highly classified information provided by members of the
Intelligence Community such as
CIA,
DIA,
FBI
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,
NSA, and many others.
As of February 2017, there are 1.6 million names in TIDE. In 2008, more than 27,000 names were removed from the list when it was determined they no longer met the criteria for inclusion. According to the FBI, international terrorists include those persons who carry out terrorist activities under foreign direction. For this purpose, they may include U.S. persons (U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents). The ''Terrorist Identities Group (TIG)'', located in
NCTC's ''Information Sharing & Knowledge Development Directorate (ISKD)'', is responsible for building and maintaining TIDE.
From the classified TIDE database, an unclassified, but sensitive, extract is provided to the FBI's
Terrorist Screening Center, which compiles the
Terrorist Screening Database
The Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) is the central terrorist watchlist consolidated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terrorist Screening Center and used by multiple agencies to compile their specific watchlists and for screening. The li ...
(TSDB).
This database, in turn, is used to compile various watch lists such as the TSA's
No Fly List, State Department's
Consular Lookout and Support System
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
A consu ...
, Homeland Security's
Interagency Border Inspection System
The Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS) is a United States computer-based system that provides the law enforcement community with files of common interest. IBIS provides access to the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Crime Informa ...
, and FBI's NCIC (
National Crime Information Center) for state and local law enforcement.
Tuscan
There is a huge, secretive US anti-terrorism database for Canada specifically, "Tuscan" (Tipoff US/Canada), revealed by Canada’s access to information system. The database is used by both the US and Canada, and applies to all borders, not just airports; it is provided, in addition to US personnel, to every Canadian border guard and immigration officer, who have the power to detain, interrogate, arrest and deny entry to anyone listed on it. It is believed to contain information on about 680,000 people thought to be linked with terrorism. The list was created in 1997 as a consular aid. It was repurposed and expanded after 9/11, and again in 2016. The names in Tuscan come from the US Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide), which populates various US traveller databases, Canada’s Tuscan and the Australian equivalent, "Tactics".
See also
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Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System
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Datamart
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Open Source Information System
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No Fly List
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Selectee list
References
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External links
Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years - washingtonpost.com (March 25, 2007)
Terrorism databases
Government databases in the United States