The government proposed a third version of its airline passenger pre-screening program Thursday, stripped of controversial data mining elements that had aroused privacy concerns and blocked earlier versions.
At the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that starting six months from now airlines operating international flights will be required to send the government their passenger list data before the planes take off rather than afterwards, as is now the case.
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Chertoff said the new domestic system, known as Secure Flight, will avoid the kinds of activities envisioned in earlier versions of the proposal that raised privacy concerns.
The new system will be tested this fall by TSA and
is open for public comment after which the government plans to issue a final version and implement the program sometime in 2008.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070809/.../secure_flight
... another waste of time and energy...