Passenger Profiling: CAPPS II

Posted by michael on Sunday September 22, 2002 @02:15PM from the what-me-worry dept.

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."

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Re:What can you "profile" actually? by neocon · 2002-09-27 04:39 · Score: 1, Redundant

Which exactly holds up stonehand's point -- you can come up with two counterexamples, against the hundreds of al-Qaeda members being held in Camp X-Ray, and the thousands captured or killed in Afghanistan.

Looks like pretty good odds to me...