September 5, 2002

Vast Airline Passenger Profiling Scheme Moving Forward

A Washington Post story describes the progress made by the new Transportation Security Administration in developing what the articles says "is in effect the creation of the nation's largest domestic surveillance system." The TSA plans to perform extensive backgrounds checks on all airline passengers, searching credit histories, public records, driver license databases, criminal information and other public and private databases. The plan marks a radical break with security strategy of the past by focusing on the predictive profiling of passengers' background as the key foundation for security.

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Air Travel Privacy EPIC Posted by EPIC at September 5, 2002 1:45 PM