September 9, 2003
Should YouTrust Big Brother
Jeralyn Merrit wonders:
We don't know why people aren't screaming bloody murder about this.The this is CAPPS II, the new airline passenger screening system currently under development.
Yes, why aren't we up in arms about this? Go read Jeralyn's post and the related links. CAPPS II looks like Total Information Awareness is alive and well not something 5 years away as Fox News argues:
Any real development of TIA technology is more than five years away, so concerns that the technology will be abused are speculative, at best.Well, since Fox's 5 year forecast is clearly speculative why would we expect it not to be abused.
Gosh, just imagine, you are headed to New York next summer to provide peaceful input to the GOP convention but, oops, your color is red and you don't get to go. What set of data in the fed files might cause this to happen?
Even though the absence of information may be as problematic as the information the feds have you just might want to start making yourself a little less visible by learning how to use cash again.
Posted by Steve on September 9, 2003
