digital8
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 Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: Passenger Screening, Take 10 |
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Despite initial delays and controversy regarding plans for an airline passenger screening system, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is moving forward with Secure Flight, planning to award testing contracts on February 22, 2005. Secure Flight, successor to the cancelled CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) II project, checks passenger names against a watchlist maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center, and will verify identities through commercial databases. However, privacy advocates warn that commercial databases, usually used for direct marketing, are often inaccurate. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has posted documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that show one database firm, Acxiom, lobbied the Justice Department to reduce federal privacy protections so it could build an identity-verification tool. Congress has similar concerns regarding the use of marketing databases, and has barred the TSA from using them until the Government Accountability Office (GAO) certifies its privacy policies.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66433,00.html |
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