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CAPPS 2 Back to the Drawing Board

Posted by michael on from the holy-water-and-silver-weapons dept.

dagnabit writes "Just saw this over at MSNBC. Apparently Tom Ridge is revising CAPPS II due to the lawsuits and complaints from some Congresscritters As an alternative, the TSA is hoping frequent travellers will voluntarily give up their info..."

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  1. Re:At least they are thinking by keraneuology · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why does everybody assume that just because they -claim- that they are scrapping the program it will actually -be- scrapped? Do we have any assurances that the program won't simply be classified and carried out under cloak of government secrecy?

    Oh yeah... that's right, elected officials, appointees and their employees NEVER lie. EVER. If they say they will/won't do something it is ALWAYS true.

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    If the g'vt kept the data on you that google does you'd better believe you'd be calling it "doing evil"