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Date Posted: 13:25:07 02/28/03 Fri
Author: fellow non-traveler
Subject: just heard this one on the news

Transportation officials say a contractor will be picked soon to build the nationwide computer system, which will check such things as credit reports and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists.

Civil liberties groups and activists are objecting to the plan, seeing the potential for unconstitutional invasions of privacy and for database mix-ups that could lead to innocent people being branded security risks.

"This system threatens to create a permanent blacklisted underclass of Americans who cannot travel freely," said Katie Corrigan, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union.

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[> Here's the full article quoted above -- CLICK HERE for full article, 13:30:13 02/28/03 Fri


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[> [> This is so screwed up... -- talkonline, 13:43:58 02/28/03 Fri

but,I feel like buying a ticket just to see what kind of "threat level" I would be assigned based on my CREDIT REPORT?????? (oh yeah,but then I might have to actually get on a plane- they have zero threat level from me 'cause that won't happen!).

Will someone please tell me,exactly WHAT would be on someone's credit report,that would make them a threat-(don't worry,I'm sure that the "bad guys" already know whatever will send off the red flags and they have GREAT records)???? WE (normal AMERICAN citizens),once again get treated like SUSPECTS.



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