Feds plan new air passenger screening (Secure Flight)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Last updated August 9, 2007 8:46 a.m. PT

Feds plan new air passenger screening

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- The government proposed a third version of
its airline passenger pre-screening program Thursday, stripped
of controversial data mining elements that had aroused privacy
concerns and blocked earlier versions.

At the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
announced that starting six months from now airlines operating
international flights will be required to send the government
their passenger list data before the planes take off rather than
afterwards, as is now the case.

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The proposed domestic system would transfer the matching of
passengers against the government's terrorist watch lists from
the airlines, which do it now, to Transportation Security
Administration officers.

"This should provide more security and more consistency, and
thus reduce misidentifications" which have produced passenger
frustrations, Chertoff said.

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Read more: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Secure_Flight.html

[babylonsister]

1. This will work well. How outdated is their current list? They just seem

to keep suggesting things they don't have the manpower to control.

[EVDebs]

3. Global Information Group in the Bahamas, CAPPS II offshore, private and

no Congressional oversight. TIA.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36853-2004Oct15?language=printer

[corbett]

5. An Important Detail - Thanks!

Kick!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. BFD.

The watch lists are already known to be faulty in extremis.

[EVDebs]

4. A red herring from the REAL offshored privatized unknown datamine