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posted by mpawlo
on Sunday March 02, @08:32AM
from the sometime-you-just-do-not-want-a-high-score dept.
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miladus writes "The Washington
Post reports that Lockheed martin Co. has been awarded an open-ended
contract by the Transportation Security Information to build the
backbone of Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS
II). The system will collect and then send a passenger’s identifying
information to a commercial information service which will return a
risk score (for a fee), similar to a credit score. According to
officials, the agency’s computer will receive the score but no personal
information (it reminds one of Windows update and the latest discussion
of what information it collects on Slashdot).
Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s
Program on Technology and Liberty, questions the effectiveness of the
program saying:’Those who are falsely accused by this system are going
to carry around this scarlet letter’."
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