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Re: [privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism


From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:57:07 -0600

On 12/1/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
Still, privacy advocates view ATS with alarm. "It's probably the most
invasive system the government has yet deployed in terms of the number of
people affected," David Sobel, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a civil liberties group devoted to electronic data issues, said
in an interview.


Invasive how? It seems that they've probably tracked international
travel for a very long time (your passport) and they've simply added a
few items (or, more likely, linked them) and scored  the total. Reads
like a non-issue issue, but the EFF will certainly wring it for all
its media worth.
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