<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Cholula:
"Transportation officials say a contractor will be picked soon to build the nationwide computer system, which will check such things as credit reports and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists."
What does ones credit report have to do with their potential as a security risk??
And, then I see our friends at TSA will administer the system...which doesn't thrill me either.
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That will be interesting since DL doesn't have an SSN for me nor do they have an address from any US credit file - and they don't have access to European credit files...
I agree with profiling in general but there has been a tendency to use 9/11 to push the envelope too far. Elements of the inapproriately named Patriot Act are not what one expects from a true free democracy.