[NetBehaviour] U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read.
marc garrett
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Fri Sep 21 10:45:36 CEST 2007
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read.
By Ryan Singel.
International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or
drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be
careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show
the government is storing such information for years.
Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government
routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as
they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border
inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records
note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of
reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd
packed for the trip.
The breadth of the information obtained by the Gilmore-funded Identity
Project (using a Privacy Act request) shows the government's screening
program at the border is actually a "surveillance dragnet," according to
the group's spokesman Bill Scannell.
"There is so much sensitive information in the documents that it is
clear that Homeland Security is not playing straight with the American
people," Scannell said.
more...
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/09/flight_tracking
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