Hank Asher

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Hank Asher (born c. 1951) is a millionaire businessman and the founder of several data aggregation companies that store vast amounts of personal information about individuals in electronic databases.

In 1992, Asher founded Database Technologies. The group once had a data management contract with the FBI, which was terminated following allegations that Asher was associated with Bahamian drug dealers[1] Asher no longer headed Database Technologies by the time it was acquired by ChoicePoint in 2002 and subsequently became embroiled in the Florida Central Voter File, 2000 Florida Election Controversy controversy.

In 1999, Asher founded Seisint, Inc. by merging two companies. While at Seisint, Hank Asher played a leading role in developing the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (MATRIX) datamining system for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, described as a tool to help state law enforcement officials identify potential terrorists. The Matrix program was shut down in June 2005 after federal funding was cut in the wake of public concerns over privacy and state surveillance. [2]

He resigned from the company in August 2003 after a series of critical newspaper reports point out has pas links with drug dealers and the role of Database techngologies in the 2000 Florida elections.[3] Seisint was later sold to Anglo-Dutch publishing giant Reed Elsevier, for US$775 milllion and combined with its own data aggregation subsidiary, LexisNexis.[4]

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