more on 60 Minutes gets its hands on the no-fly list

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jeff Jonas <jeffjonas () us ibm com>
Date: October 6, 2006 5:33:33 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: [IP] 60 Minutes gets its hands on the no-fly list


Dave,

Paul Rosenzweig and I published a Heritage Foundation paper last year  
that discusses both this problem (wrongly matched) as well as redress  
considerations for those wrongly named.  We suggested solving the  
false positive problem (every Gary Smith getting infringed) in a many  
that does not necessitate public records and/or large data aggregations.

Some of your IP subscribers may find this useful.

Correcting False Positives: Redress and the Watch List Conundrum
by Paul Rosenzweig and Jeff Jonas
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/lm17.cfm
Jeff Jonas
Distinguished Engineer and
Chief Scientist
IBM Entity Analytics
702.851.4697
JeffJonas () us ibm com
My blog: www.jeffjonas.typepad.com

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David Farber <dave () farber net>
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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: October 6, 2006 3:32:17 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: 60 Minutes gets its hands on the no-fly list

                Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List
                Steve Kroft reports lists includes President of  
Bolivia,
                dead 9/11 hijackers
                http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/ 
main2066624.shtml

Excerpt:

                Gary Smith, John Williams and Robert Johnson are  
some of those
                names. Kroft talked to 12 people with the name  
Robert Johnson, all
                of whom are detained almost every time they fly. The  
detentions
                can include strip searches and long delays in their  
travels.

                "Well, Robert Johnson will never get off the list,"  
says
                Donna Bucella, who oversaw the creation of the list  
and has
                headed up the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center since  
2003. She
                regrets the trouble they experience, but chalks it  
up to the
                price of security in the post-9/11 world. "They're  
going to be
                inconvenienced every time ... because they do have  
the name of
                a person who's a known or suspected terrorist," says  
Bucella.

---Rsk


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