U.S. dumps colour-coding of air passengers...

[stevedeshazer]

... after months of controversy

http://www.canada.com/travel/story.html?id=e24360b1-1215-4e84-995a-6f667ab75cc4

Beth Gorham
July 16, 2004

WASHINGTON (CP) - The United States has dumped plans to colour-code air travellers according to their perceived terrorist threat level in favour of a voluntary system of sharing personal information.

And many observers are hoping the contentious idea for screening domestic and international passengers won't regain favour after the U.S. election this fall. Plagued for months by logistical problems and criticism from privacy advocates, airlines and some legislators, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge decided to pull the plug this week on the $100-million US project.

It would have collected passenger names, addresses, telephone numbers, birthdates and itineraries from airlines and reservations companies, then checked the data against crime and commercial databases.

Suspected terrorists and violent criminals would be coded red and forbidden to fly. Yellow would indicate the need for a search and questioning and green would mean standard screening.

more at link

[stevedeshazer]

1. I haven't seen anything about this in the US press

Did I just miss it?

[m-jean03]

2. THANK GOD!!!!

Boy, that's a relief. That was one of the scariest ideas I'd ever heard.
The freeps didn't even like it.

[truthisfreedom]

3. just another way to dump a few hundred million into the pockets of their

corporate cronies, blowing our hard-earned taxes on some hairbrained screwball idea. go team bush... and just keep going... right off that cliff that's in front of ya.