FC: Commenting on DoT's airline passenger tracking system

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:53:32 -0800
To: declan () well com
From: Deborah Pierce <dsp () privacyactivism org>
Subject: Comments needed now on DOT plan to implement portions of CAPPS II
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Hi Declan,

In the middle of January the DOT put a notice in the Federal Register 
wanting to create a system of records that's exempt from the Privacy Act.

Comments need to be submitted by Monday, Feb. 23.

This system of records looks suspiciously like CAPPS II. Here's the link to 
the Federal Register notice: http://cryptome.org/tsa011503.htm. I thought 
this was a stealthy end run around the debate that should take place before 
such a surveillance plan is put into place, particularly since people will 
never be able to access the information collected about them, and 
particularly given all of the debate around the Total Information Awareness 
system.

PrivacyActivism has drafted a sample letter asking for the proposed regs to 
be withdrawn. You can use this as a starting point for your own letter, or 
just print it out, sign it and mail it. See 
http://www.privacyactivism.org/Item/63 for the links to this letter in a 
variety of formats, and tips on writing good comments.

Comments need to be mailed (fax and e-mail comments are not supported) to

Documentary Services Division
Attention: Docket Section, Room PL-101
Docket No. OST-1996-1437
Department of Transportation, SVC-124
Washington, DC 20590

Since comments are due on Monday, Feb. 24th, mailing them out before Friday 
of this week is important.
For more information about the CAPPS II system people can view these link:
http://www.privacyactivism.org/Topic/CAPPS.

I'd really appreciate it if you could post this to Politech -- the more 
people who send letters to DOT the better.

Best,
Deborah

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Deborah Pierce
Executive Director
Privacyactivism

Bellevue, WA
San Francisco, CA

415-225-1730
dsp () privacyactivism org
www.privacyactivism.org

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