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------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:05:16 -0400 To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: FAA's new air passenger surveillance system Reply-to: declan@well.com http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19218.html Tourist or Terrorist? by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 3:00 a.m. 20.Apr.99.PDT 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. Critics complain the plan shows that Gore doesn't really support privacy. Last May, the vice president told an audience of graduating students at New York University that privacy "is a basic American value." "He's been talking about privacy and the protection of personal information online, but those principles that he talks about don't parallel what he's done. He's tried to force intrusive measures into law," says Lisa Dean, vice president of the Free Congress Foundation. "We'd have even more of this with a President Gore." The vice president chaired a high-level White House commission that in 1997 released recommendations that the Federal Aviation Administration compiled into a 40-page rule published Monday. [...remainder snipped...] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----Zurück