http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/ Challenging ID Demands Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/#comment-1244 Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » More illegalities in the “Automated Targeting System” Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:57:08 +0000 http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/#comment-1244 [...] Even while trying to defend the Automated Targeting System that is being used to deny travelers their rights on the basis of secret “risk assessments” that give each of us a terror score basis on secret databases of third-party and government information about us, the Department of Homeland Security has admitted to more and more violations of Federal laws, the U.S. Constitution, and international human rights treaties. [...] [...] Even while trying to defend the Automated Targeting System that is being used to deny travelers their rights on the basis of secret “risk assessments” that give each of us a terror score basis on secret databases of third-party and government information about us, the Department of Homeland Security has admitted to more and more violations of Federal laws, the U.S. Constitution, and international human rights treaties. [...]

]]> http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/#comment-369 Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » Chertoff thinks it’s “righteous” to give each traveler a terror score Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:32:10 +0000 http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/#comment-369 [...] Everywhere he goes this week, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is being dogged by questions about the illegality of the “Automated Targeting System” we pointed out in our comments filed Monday. [...] [...] Everywhere he goes this week, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is being dogged by questions about the illegality of the “Automated Targeting System” we pointed out in our comments filed Monday. [...]

]]> http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/#comment-363 Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » If you travel, you’re still a target Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:38:50 +0000 http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/#comment-363 [...] In comments filed Monday with the DHS, we pointed out that the newly-revealed “Automated Targeting System” (ATS) that the DHS has been operating, compiling a massive database of travel reservations and other records about travelers and using this to assign us a “terrorist score” every time we cross the borders of the U.S., violates repeated direct orders from Congress to the DHS not to spend a penny on assigning such “risk assessments” to airline passengers. [...] [...] In comments filed Monday with the DHS, we pointed out that the newly-revealed “Automated Targeting System” (ATS) that the DHS has been operating, compiling a massive database of travel reservations and other records about travelers and using this to assign us a “terrorist score” every time we cross the borders of the U.S., violates repeated direct orders from Congress to the DHS not to spend a penny on assigning such “risk assessments” to airline passengers. [...]

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