Passenger information for those who flew in June of 2004 will be
turned over to the government to evaluate a new system designed to help identify terrorists. This data is certain to have anomalies which could potentially lead to innocent citizens being erroneously labeled as terrorists and placed on a perpetual watch-list. Additionally, the fact that the government is collecting data that includes, for example, special food requests opens the door for individuals to unfairly infer things about passengers.

The TSA has posted a Privacy Impacts Assessment (PIA) for the testing phase of the Secure Flight program. See Yahoo News Article for more information.

This entry was posted by Annie Antón (anton@csc.ncsu.edu) on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004 at 5:14 pm and is filed under Government Programs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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