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- Title: Humanism Versus the Militarization of America (Cover Story)
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 325 KB
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If you engage in travel overseas you should know that, since March 2003, airlines in Europe have been sharing your passenger data with federal authorities in the United States under an interim agreement that was finalized on May 28, 2004. The U.S. government plans to link this to your threat level: whatever terrorist danger you are believed to pose. In a few months this will apply to all U.S. domestic air travelers when airlines are issued a federal security directive to comply with the new Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (called CAPPS II). Other data on you may be included among the four billion records in the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange ("Matrix" for short), a database that combines personal information gathered from a variety of sources. However, according to the Associated Press, shortly after September 11, 2001, a test of this database gave law enforcement authorities "the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists, resulting in some investigations and arrests." The high "terrorism quotient" of these people was determined through factors such as age, credit history, ethnicity, driver's and pilot's licenses, "investigational data" and "connections to 'dirty' addresses known to have been used by other suspects" Because the records include data on innocent people, however, civil liberties groups have objected and at least nine states have pulled out of the program.
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