U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read - The Diigo Meta page

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• 12 Oct 07
  

  Alex Whitlock
  • The so-called Automated Targeting System scrutinizes every airline passenger entering or leaving the country using classified rules that tell agents which passengers to give extra screening to and which to deny entry or exit from the country.  The system relies on data ranging from the government's 700,000-name terrorism watchlist to data included in airline-travel database entries, known as Passenger Name Records, which airlines are required to submit to the government.  According to government descriptions, ATS mines data from intelligence, law enforcement and regulatory databases, looking for linkages in order to identify "high-risk" targets who may not already be on terrorist watchlists.
• 29 Sep 07
  

  It turns out Big Brother IS keeping track of all those Danielle Steel novels you read at the airport.

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• 27 Sep 07
  

  Stephanie Booth

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• 24 Sep 07
  

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• 23 Sep 07
  

  Jay Diamond

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• 22 Sep 07
  

  Nancy Hancock

  International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for ye

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• 21 Sep 07
  

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• 20 Sep 07
  

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  David Corking

  This intrusive data collection is not surprising.

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  • One report about Gilmore notes: "PAX (passenger) has many small flashlights with pot leaves on them. He had a book entitled 'Drugs and Your Rights.'" Gilmore is an advocate for marijuana legalization.
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  Michel Roland-Guill

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  • International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for years. 

     Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore's choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he'd packed for the trip. 

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