Posted on 10/22/2013 7:38:06 AM PDT by markomalley
The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.
While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers data for domestic airport screenings. Previously that level of scrutiny applied only to individuals entering the United States.
The prescreening, some of which is already taking place, is described in documents the T.S.A. released to comply with government regulations about the collection and use of individuals data, but the details of the program have not been publicly announced.
It is unclear precisely what information the agency is relying upon to make these risk assessments, given the extensive range of records it can access, including tax identification number, past travel itineraries, property records, physical characteristics, and law enforcement or intelligence information.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Heck, why not start the screening at birth? Just in case you ever venture out into public.
Your TV scans from the flat screens bought after 2011 can start at home.
Get ready, America ... for the Gulag prison phase.
Muslims, of course, will be exempt.
Amazing, this works but healthcare.gov doesn’t.
All from a Prez with SEVEN social security numbers.
TSA agent sez...
“Ah, Sir...in reviewing your records, we see you visited your Obamacare-assigned physician yesterday complaining of a fever and a rash, and the test results have not come back yet. You won’t be able to fly until you’re cleared for the plague and all those other nasty bio threats that terrorists like to use. Have a nice day.”
Guess this is why everyone under 30 seems to feel that Ed Snowden is a Saint.
Why limit the “screening” to people who are flying? It’d be a lot easier to just rape everybody.
I’m almost surprized this is coming from the NYT. Are they complaining or trumpeting?
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
No signee for Obamacare, no flyee ...
I am 71 , I don’t see Snowden as a Saint but I do see him as a whistleblower who is being punished politically for outing invasions of Americans privacy.
Oh I know I’m on their list.....sigh
Funny how they can screen every American citizen, yet they refuse to screen one particular Indonesian!
The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its screening of passengers before they arrive at the airport by searching a wide array of government and private databases that can include records like car registrations and employment information.
While the agency says that the goal is to streamline the security procedures for millions of passengers who pose no risk, - the new measures give the government greater authority to use travelers data for domestic airport screenings.
Next they’ll have cameras stationed every three feet along your sewer pipes and half a dozen men with lab coats and clipboards at the end of the driveway monitoring your output to determine your seat number.
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