Privacy advocates are wary, concerned the program could lead to government snooping and innocent people being mistakenly identified because their names are similar to those on government watch lists.
Negotiations with the European Commission over a separate program resulted in an agreement that the Homeland Security Department would limit the type of passenger information collected and the amount of time it is stored. The commission also agreed to allow passenger data to be used in testing the Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II.
CAPPS II would screen all passengers by checking information such as name, address and date of birth.
This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A5.
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Stumble It!
They are, more and more, targeting people who don\'t even have a clue that they are being targeted, why they are being targeted, or that they\'ve done anything wrong.
the Bush administration has been caught with its hand in the cookie jar, ie. false flag WTC and Iraq WMD. So what do you do? Create more cookie jars. The phony terrorist threat will take years to unravel, if at all, as there is huge money interests behind Patriot I and II and the Canadian equivalent
\"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced inpast centuries.\"
David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission,in June, 1991.
a. When did/will it start?
-Like we\'d ever be told, right?
~~ Wildel