...At the heart of the expanded effort is a database called the Automated Targeting System, which is maintained by the Department of Homeland Security and screens travelers entering the United States...
Whenever I see "Automated Targeting System," I think of drones.
...For instance, an update about the T.S.A.’s Transportation Security Enforcement Record System, which contains information about travelers accused of “violations or potential violations” of security regulations, warns that the records may be shared with “a debt collection agency for the purpose of debt collection.”...
Debt collection? For what possible reason? Where is the study that links debtors with terrorism? Has anybody in the federal government heard of mission creep or read the administrative search doctrine?
...A recent privacy notice about PreCheck notes that fingerprints submitted by people who apply for the program will be used by the F.B.I. to check its unsolved crimes database...
How can this be legal? Is this why TSA wants to exempt PreCheck from provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974?