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[prowler1971]

Homeland Security tracks travelers' meals

Without notifying the public, federal agents have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals.

The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments. The government intends to keep the scores on file for 40 years.

The scores are assigned to people entering and leaving the United States after computers assess their travel records, including where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal they ordered.

The program's existence was quietly disclosed earlier in November when the government put an announcement detailing the Automated Targeting System, or ATS, for the first time in the Federal Register, a fine-print compendium of federal rules.

I wonder who's tracking government travel.

Comments

[danctrf.livejournal.com]

I'm good with it, I'd say go back to racial profiling as well but I'm pretty sure they never stopped. They just stopped telling us about it.

Can you imagine how much work this was to get going and how much additional work and lawsuits would be involved if they let it all be open to the public and be challengeable? Its called clandestine for a reason and sometimes its best to let them do their thing without bogging them down. Most of those if not all of them are reasonable statistics to use when determining risk and personally, I'd like them to be a whole lot better at their job than they are currently. Forcing transparency on our security measures seems pretty counter productive.

Dan

[prowler1971.livejournal.com]

Transparency is at once both a plus and a minus. On the plus side, it's a deterrent as the bad people know we're watching these things. On the minus side, the bad guys know what sorts of patterns to avoid.

However, I don't like I government taking these kinds of liberties, and they've been taking more and more. If this was the only thing they were doing, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much. Daily more and more things our government does bothers me quite a bit.

"Those willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
-- Benjamin Franklin

[dragonfly545.livejournal.com]

We are rapidly becoming a police state thanks to Mr. Dickhead and his corrupt cronies. It is amazing how we went from a country people loved to one that nobody trusts or likes in such a short time. I write that off to poor leadership BEYOND simply the president.

[prowler1971.livejournal.com]

It's a combination of several things.

1) Emperor Bush and Darth Cheney
2) The Internet has made us more aware of a lot of things
3) As we get older, we are better informed

The revolution is coming.

[dragonfly545.livejournal.com]

Remember, remember... where the heck is my mask?

[prowler1971.livejournal.com]

Remember remember... Guy Faux had more in common with George Bush.