http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/#comment-11901 DHS: Passenger screening no threat to privacy - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:16:43 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/#comment-11901 [...] The Department of Homeland Security defended its use of a controversial passenger screening system Wednesday, saying the system uses link analysis techniques of the kind which would have caught the 9/11 hijackers had they been employed and that the program “does not pose a threat to privacy.” [...] [...] The Department of Homeland Security defended its use of a controversial passenger screening system Wednesday, saying the system uses link analysis techniques of the kind which would have caught the 9/11 hijackers had they been employed and that the program “does not pose a threat to privacy.” [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/#comment-11900 Traveler risk scoring system illegal? - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:44:11 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/#comment-11900 [...] The Department of Homeland Security is under fire from lawmakers and privacy advocates who are outraged at last month’s news of the Automated Targeting System, which assigns a terrorism risk score to international travelers, and saying the program is illegal. [...] [...] The Department of Homeland Security is under fire from lawmakers and privacy advocates who are outraged at last month’s news of the Automated Targeting System, which assigns a terrorism risk score to international travelers, and saying the program is illegal. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/#comment-11899 Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:27:55 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/11/05/homeland-security-data-mining-all-international-travelers/#comment-11899 [...] Lawmakers and businessmen who missed the story a month ago (because they don’t read Homeland Stupidity) about Homeland Security’s Automated Targeting System being used to assign terrorism risk scores to international travelers are expressing outrage over the system. “I have never seen anything as egregious as this,” said Kevin Mitchell, president of the Business Travel Coalition. [...] [...] Lawmakers and businessmen who missed the story a month ago (because they don’t read Homeland Stupidity) about Homeland Security’s Automated Targeting System being used to assign terrorism risk scores to international travelers are expressing outrage over the system. “I have never seen anything as egregious as this,” said Kevin Mitchell, president of the Business Travel Coalition. [...]

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