August 26, 2003

Feds to profile all U.S. air passengers
Wake the fuck up, America

In the name of security, the government intends to create database profiles of all American air travelers and could blacklist some from commercial flights without recourse, civil libertarians warned Monday.

Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr said ‘‘very, very serious threats to the Bill of Rights’’ are posed by the measures proposed by the Transportation Security Administration, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

‘‘It could create a blacklist of airline passengers, who for whatever reason, have a scarlet letter of 'potential threat’ forever imprinted in their commercial and government data fingerprints,’’ said Laura Murphy, director of the legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union. - - link.

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