Feds Push Flier Background Checks

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Daniel Haley"<dkhaley () pobox com>
Sent: 8/15/05 8:47:37 AM
To: "dave () farber net"<dave () farber net>
Subject: Feds Push Flier Background Checks

Hi Dave,
 
This appeared on Wired's site today:
 
" Just weeks after congressional investigators found that officials in
charge of a new airline passenger-screening system violated a federal
privacy law, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing Congress to
reduce oversight of the program and to allow it to use commercial databases
to screen for terrorists. 

Changes proposed to next year's homeland security funding bill would allow
the controversial Secure Flight program to use background checks and
profiling to help determine if an airline passenger is a terrorist despite
not being on a terror watch list.  



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