[privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[Brian Loe]

On 12/1/06, Richard M. Smith <rms at computerbytesman.com> wrote:
> Still, privacy advocates view ATS with alarm. "It's probably the most
> invasive system the government has yet deployed in terms of the number of
> people affected," David Sobel, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier
> Foundation, a civil liberties group devoted to electronic data issues, said
> in an interview.


Invasive how? It seems that they've probably tracked international
travel for a very long time (your passport) and they've simply added a
few items (or, more likely, linked them) and scored  the total. Reads
like a non-issue issue, but the EFF will certainly wring it for all
its media worth.