HomeSec Blacklist to be Available to Private Companies

unassimilatible writes "The Washington Times reports that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are developing a database that will allow private companies to submit lists of individuals to be screened for a connection to terrorism. The database will eventually allow private-sector entities, such as operators of critical infrastructure facilities or organizers of large events, to submit a list of persons associated with those events to the U.S. government to be screened for any nexus to terrorism. All of this won't be cheap either; total terror-related IT spending by US federal and state governments will run past $100 billion in 2004. But don't feel left out Europeans, since the EU is considering a terror database as well, although France and UK are reluctant to share intel."

Comments

Re:Wow, that's a surprise.

[some2]

I'd be more worried in the UK. In the US, we do not typically have cameras mounted on the freeways capable of tracking license plate numbers (to my knowledge). In the UK, I keep hearing about people receiving speeding citations after speeding ~~ 100+ mph down the freeways. We have them all over the place here to give red light tickets, but that is about it, and to my knowledge, those are (hopefully) not tracking individual motorists.

That being said, the possibility of either is quite concerning...

YAY

[alexborges]

Georgie is really really trying to go back to texas... Good.

Re:Anti-globalisation peeps are next.

[ENOENT]

They'll just put all the registered Democrats in the list, to be rounded up and put into concentration camps for opposing our Republican overlords.

Oh yeah, and anybody who buys generic pharmaceuticals or imported automobiles.