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

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

I wonder if people who have had background checks in order to buy guns 
have their potential terrorist score up'ed a little bit.

Richard
> 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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