FC: Business Week's Salkever: Let's profile airline passengers

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Some history, from an article I wrote 2.5 years ago:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,19218,00.html
   WASHINGTON -- A US$2.8-billion monitoring system championed by Vice
   President Gore will use computer profiles to single out airline
   passengers for investigation and scrutiny.
   Airlines will use a secret algorithm to compare travelers' personal
   data to profiles of likely terrorists, according to a new proposed
   federal regulation. Other travelers will be chosen at random. [...]

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:01:21 -0400
From: alex_salkever <alex_salkever () businessweek com>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Re: FC: Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo endorse self-rating system at event 
today

 Declan, here is a column I wrote on the need for better passenger profiling
 to safeguard air travel and clamp down on international crime. Would love
 to see what the PolitechBot crew has to say about it. If you wish to use
 this, please warn them, though, that there is a global pop-up on our site,
 something I don't love but have no control over. Thanks!

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2001/nf20011023_1736.htm

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Alex Salkever
Technology Editor
www.businessweek.com
212.904.3582




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