[privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[Drsolly]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, so you're profiling your email.