Passenger Profiling: CAPPS II

gabec writes "'Initial rollout of what may eventually become the world's largest silicon repository of personal data could be less than 90 days away....The Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II) is designed to scan multiple public and private databases for information on individuals traveling into and out of the United States. The system will feed the results to an analysis application that mathematically ranks travelers' potential as security threats.' It will happen by the end of the year, if nothing is done to stop it: And here are some articles on this."

Comments

Why would anyone want to stop this?

[danny256]

Maybe I'm crazy but I care more about not getting killed in an airplane by terrorists than whether or not there is a big data base about me. I'm not a terrorist and so I have nothing to fear from this system. Its a good thing.

Re:Sigh.

[krenshala]

... pay your bills or more branches of the government besides the IRS will be after you.

But ... the IRS isn't a branch of the gov't. Its a civilian company contracted to handle the collection of the Federal Income Tax. (Have you ever looked at paperwork from the IRS? I found it very interesting that the letterhead says its from the 'Department of the Treasury' and not the 'US Department of the Treasury' ...)

yeah, yeah ... so my post is OT. So report me to the ... oh, wait ...

"The Siege"

[Travoltus]

Has ANYONE seen this movie starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis???

Cheese and Crackers, people, what went on in that movie is what is going on in America right this minute. Terrorists jack us up a good bloody one, and we reply by cutting our own freedoms down to the quick.

This is like some DDoS attack on the Constitution, and we're playing right into it.