WIRED News: Data Dump Required Before Flights

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Gonna fly? Hope your record is clean!

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Data Dump Required Before Flights

By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Aug. 01, 2003 PT

The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday revealed details of the newest version of a computerized system designed to prevent terrorists from boarding airplanes by checking passengers' backgrounds against several databases.

The second-generation Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, as outlined in a notice to be published Friday in the Federal Register, will rate every passenger by checking dates of birth, home addresses and phone numbers against commercial databases and the government's terrorist watch lists.

The system also would allow the Transportation Security Administration to look for people wanted for "crimes of violence." It could look for domestic groups accused of terrorism, including members of radical groups such as the Animal Liberation Front.

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[Robb]

1. Well,

On the surface it looks like only a marginally more intrusive (privacy-wise) version of the existing CAPPS. Which also, it seems, sucks at picking out terrorists.

Sooo... :eyes: