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."

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hypocrisy run amok

[mcrbids]

You know, I just read an interesting article on bayesian filtering... which I find interesting, but I find no different than the statistical analysis that our elected govornment is using.

Why is it OK to use these techniques to get the spammers, but not the terrorists?

Could somebody explain this one to me?