ACLU’s Privacy SOS presented a great article about why “it’s time to pull the plug on fusion centers!” Microsoft has a long-standing relationship with government, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. Fusion Centers, in turn, give out grants to police departments for new surveillance technologies. A bipartisan Senate investigation and report previously found that fusion centers are basically ‘useless’ in countering terrorism, but ‘troubling’ when it came to violating the privacy and civil liberties of U.S. citizens.”]