U.S. ditches travel surveillance plan
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security bowed to pressure from civil libertarians, airlines, the travel industry and other nations in deciding to ditch CAPPSII, an air passenger surveillance program that would have given each traveller a green-yellow-red rating based on their perceived security threat
"The government has recognized that this program would have had immense implications for Americans' privacy, while providing little protection against terrorism," said Laura Murphy of the American Civil Liberties Union.
As planned, CAPPSII would have compelled travel agencies and airlines to turn over the full name, home address, telephone number, date of birth and travel itinerary for all passengers. That information was then to have been fed into databases that tap public records and commercial computer banks, such as shopping mailing lists, to confirm a traveller's identity.
http://thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1089929438776&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154To me it looks like spin. From this article it appears that all travellers would be subjected to the same scrutiny not only those travelling on a passport..