Originally Posted by 2lazytothinkofname
I realize everyone here belives the governmnet is incapable of walking and chewing gum but I think the database contains more than first initial, last name. DOB, sex at the minimum come to mind. If the no-fly list were indeed in the millions, we'd have empty planes as nobody would ever get on. The fact that there have been so few examples of no-fly list errors proves that your millions scenario just doesn't exist.
Some of the entries on various US government blacklists are nothing more than partial names. And at least one name on one of the blacklists perpetuated by our government and used in the aviation sector was shared by at least one million persons.
Another series of names on the blacklists were entered with the wrong gender and not corrected for nearly 3 years.
Sure there are actual persons who are more uniquely listed in some of the blacklists, but there have also been mere names on blacklists that equated to over a million persons who were not individually identifiable or distinguishable from the name on the list.
Our government's implementation of blacklists is many things, but one thing it is not is perfect. And with the public-private "workaround" approach beloved by a government that believes laws should be skirted when convenient and don't apply to "the ruling establishment", I won't be surprised if it gets worse for many more before it gets better.
(I don't ignore that we have a government that believes in -- and has a policy of -- burning bodies of those who it kills but wishes not to publicly mention as having been killed by it.
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