[privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[Richard M. Smith]

I wonder if people who have had background checks in order to buy guns 
have their potential terrorist score up'ed a little bit.

Richard
> 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.
>