Wow. They’ve finally ceded to the public’s privacy concerns and are abandoning CAPPS II. CAPPS II would’ve color coded all airline passengers to indicate a traveller’s potential to be a terrorist. It would’ve created a huge database linking detailed personal information from various sources about each airline passenger. Way more information than you’d want to give away just to be able to fly an hour down south every month to visit your kid.
I love Bob Barr’s quote: “You can never be absolutely certain that a proposal like this is dead. You can shoot it, stab it, cut its head off, drive a stake through its heart, burn it, scatter the ashes — and still it might pop up somewhere else.”
EFF’s CAPPS II page.
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