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Dec. 1st, 2006 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Homeland Security tracks travelers' meals
I wonder who's tracking government travel.
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.
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Date: 2006-12-01 03:28 pm (UTC)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
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Date: 2006-12-01 04:03 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-12-01 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 05:45 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-12-01 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 06:50 pm (UTC)