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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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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
kentauros
(29,414 posts)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?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)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.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)onethatcares
(16,172 posts)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?
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)before you travel is Israel.
Russia and China do not do this.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)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.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)solarhydrocan
(551 posts)dflprincess
(28,079 posts)and a waste of money.