[privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[Brian Loe]

On 12/2/06, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Brian Loe:
>
> > Invasive how?
>
> If you base decisions largely on such scores, it's a bit like
> scientifically founded discrimination.  You aren't judged by your own
> behavior, but that of your neighbourhood, your age group etc.  It's
> not invasive per se, but I don't think completely automated decision
> systems are acceptable, either (and that's why I don't run a regular
> spam filter).

I didn't read anything about fully automated systems that *do*
anything. Its not as if it scores you and then directs a gun to shoot
you based on that score. Much like my spam filter - it moves the
suspected message to a folder called "spam" and then I go in and
delete it, after I've verified it to be so.