[privacy] Leahy: Terror Screening Oversight a Must

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via SFGate.com (AP).

[snip]

The incoming Senate Judiciary chairman pledged greater scrutiny Friday of
computerized government anti-terrorism screening after learning that
millions of Americans who travel internationally have been assigned risk
assessments over the last four years without their knowledge.

"Data banks like this are overdue for oversight," said Sen. Patrick Leahy,
D-Vt., who will take over Judiciary in January. "That is going to change in
the new Congress."

The Associated Press reported Thursday that millions of Americans and
foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past four years have been assessed
by the computerized Automated Targeting System, or ATS, designed to help
pick out terrorists or criminals.

The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk
assessments, which the government intends to keep on file for 40 years.
Under specific circumstances, some or all data in the system can be shared
with state, local and foreign governments and even some private
contractors.

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More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/01/national/w11542
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- - ferg

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