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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 10:21 AM Oct 2013

Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly

The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.


While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers’ data for domestic airport screenings. Previously that level of scrutiny applied only to individuals entering the United States.

The prescreening, some of which is already taking place, is described in documents the T.S.A. released to comply with government regulations about the collection and use of individuals’ data, but the details of the program have not been publicly announced.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/business/security-check-now-starts-long-before-you-fly.html?_r=0&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1382451012-L2qrUfwJM1dG42Mdl6HD5w

Oh great these assholes
will now know what's in my asshole and what I ate for dinner, who I like, where I live, when I shit.








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Security Check Now Starts Long Before You Fly (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Oct 2013 OP
Another Excellent Reason To Never Fly Again cantbeserious Oct 2013 #1
That makes it difficult to get to places away from this continent. kentauros Oct 2013 #5
I refuse to fly under the modern sicherheitsdienst. hobbit709 Oct 2013 #2
Don't worry this over reach will be good Ichingcarpenter Oct 2013 #4
we have become a police state gopiscrap Oct 2013 #3
remember when onethatcares Oct 2013 #7
sure do gopiscrap Oct 2013 #8
The only country that does pre clearance screening like this is Ichingcarpenter Oct 2013 #11
Kick. Luminous Animal Oct 2013 #6
This is awful. Is it too late to stop it? nt Mojorabbit Oct 2013 #9
They DARE to do this after the revelations of NSA Spying? KoKo Oct 2013 #10
K&R woo me with science Oct 2013 #12
k&r solarhydrocan Oct 2013 #13
Which proves the crap they put us through at the airports is just theater dflprincess Oct 2013 #14

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
5. That makes it difficult to get to places away from this continent.
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:21 AM
Oct 2013

And not an option for me and my GF (she's in New Zealand.) Nor would me going by boat be an option for my employer.

Thankfully, we just don't fly very often for this to be much of an issue. Besides, don't they just have to contact the NSA for details anyway?

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
4. Don't worry this over reach will be good
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:05 AM
Oct 2013

It won't be abused by TSA agents, credit bureaus, NSA officers, collection agencies, marketeers, political operatives........... you can travel if you allowed us anal examinations of your life.

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
7. remember when
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 01:21 PM
Oct 2013

we were taught only the communist states worried about where their citizens were going, what they were doing and who they were talking to?

the curtain is being pulled back. I can't help but wonder, WHY?

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
11. The only country that does pre clearance screening like this is
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 03:39 PM
Oct 2013

before you travel is Israel.
Russia and China do not do this.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
10. They DARE to do this after the revelations of NSA Spying?
Tue Oct 22, 2013, 03:23 PM
Oct 2013

What terrorists have they caught? What elderly person or little child needs to go through this? Why does ANYONE have to go through this? But, we try to teach our kids about inappropriate touching and yet this stuff exposes them to the same, imho. It also gets them USED to intrusive probing for the rest of their lives. Maybe next it will be Mandatory DNA swabs as part of your med check up for school and vaccinations.

It's disgusting.

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