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Concern About Data Collection for Precheck
I am concerned about this proposal involving the TSA being able to use all personal data to determine whether a passenger receives pre-check: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-bl...and-looking-at
It appears that the TSA made progress toward this during the holidays. My concern is not because of thee prospect of additional passengers qualifying for precheck but instead is out of concern of this involving privacy violations. |
For those who dont click:
" consent to mine your grocery receipts, your credit card purchases, and even your Facebook posts to determine if you are a terrorist risk – not just once but on an ongoing basis.." " what you post on social media while you are enrolled in PreCheck – it is fair game" " information collected by the agency’s private sector contractors could be used for other government or private purposes" |
A good reason to get this through NEXUS.
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Here It Is From FedBizOpps
I found the solicitation.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is seeking vendors for TSA Pre√® Application Expansion initiative to develop, deliver, and deploy private sector application capabilities expanding the public's enrollment opportunities for TSA Pre✓® through an Other Transactional Agreement (OTA) awarded by TSA. The Government plans to award an OTA to multiple vendors. The Government will evaluate the proposed ready-to-market solutions' application capabilities against this TSA Pre√® Expansion Initiative Solicitation and Statement of Work. Companies that want to propose a private sector application capability must demonstrate an ability to effectively market the TSA Pre✓® program to the flying public and successfully enroll and pre-screen a large population of applicants. This includes: the ability to offer convenient and accessible enrollment options, reliably perform identity validation and verification as well as appropriately apply disqualifying criminal history convictions, and potentially make effective, provisional, determinations to pre-screen potential applicants for TSA Pre✓® eligibility. <snip> In January 2013, TSA issued a Request for Information to conduct market research, technical demonstrations and testing of private sector capabilities to perform pre-screening of individuals for TSA Pre✓®. TSA requested that the respondents include the use of commercial, publicly available, and public records data (hereinafter collectively referred to as “commercial data”) and algorithms to validate identity and perform low-risk determinations at an acceptable standard of performance at the selected risk threshold. From the Statement of Work: 4.7 Enrollment Opportunities Marketing The Contractor shall provide a marketing approach that illustrates how the Contractor plans to offer application opportunities for enrollment into the TSA Pre✓® program. The Contractor shall detail any plan to employ strategic business approaches such as affinity marketing partnerships, etc., and clearly articulate how its marketing efforts and communications align with established TSA Pre✓® brand identity and positioning, including consistency in tone and language. They can sell you data for other marketing purposes unless you opt out: The Contractor shall not use data collected from applicants for any purpose other than pre-screening for TSA Pre✓®unless the Contractor obtains express permission from the applicants after completion of the enrollment process for the program. The Contractor must clearly distinguish the completion of the enrollment process for TSA Pre✓® before requesting permission from applicants to continue communication regarding any other marketing opportunities not affiliated with TSA Pre✓®. Any such marketing communications would require the applicants to affirmatively opt-in to such additional marketing. It's still extortion. |
Anyone who participates in social media via their real identity is just asking for trouble - and the TSA is not the biggest threat you need to worry about...I certainly don't need my employer or prospective employer digging through my online life, let alone any other unnecessary organizations.
The only "social media" site that anyone would use with their real identity is LinkedIn which should be nothing more than your resume highlights and professional connections. My Facebook account uses an assumed name and dummy email created for FB and I can still connect and interact with everyone I need to without FB and its systems knowing who I really am....and the government doesn't need to know either. |
The basis of the precheck program seems to be to prequalify low security risks for speedier access through security. If you have serious concerns about your privacy and/or you have things to hide, you should not signup for pre-check.
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Originally Posted by JackInThePlane
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The basis of the precheck program seems to be to prequalify low security risks for speedier access through security. If you have serious concerns about your privacy and/or you have things to hide, you should not signup for pre-check.
Mike |
Originally Posted by JackInThePlane
(Post 24182304)
The basis of the precheck program seems to be to prequalify low security risks for speedier access through security.
At least 99.99999999% of people who shop at CostCo are not terrorists. At least 99.99999999% of people who belong to their kid's PTA are not terrorists. At least 99.99999999% of people who have between 3 and 400 Facebook friends are not terrorists. At least 99.99999999% of people who pay with MasterCard are not terrorists. How do I know? Because at least 99.99999999% of people are not terrorists.
Originally Posted by JackInThePlane
(Post 24182304)
If you have serious concerns about your privacy and/or you have things to hide, you should not signup for pre-check.
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Nobody is denying a right to privacy. Keep your privacy. Stay in the regular security line.
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Originally Posted by JackInThePlane
(Post 24182725)
Nobody is denying a right to privacy. Keep your privacy. Stay in the regular security line.
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Originally Posted by JackInThePlane
(Post 24182725)
Nobody is denying a right to privacy. Keep your privacy. Stay in the regular security line.
"Give up your personal details" or "get an unnecessarily intrusive and slow search by the government" is a false choice on the lines of "your money or your life".
Originally Posted by Spiff
(Post 24182746)
The regular "security" line should be Pre-check. Not the other way around.
For the record, I stay in the "regular security line" - in SYD, CBR, MEL, BNE, PER, NRT, SIN, AUH, DXB, GVA, ZRH and elsewhere. But not in the US (or UK) - I don't go there anymore. And TSA is why. |
Originally Posted by JackInThePlane
(Post 24182304)
If you have serious concerns about your privacy and/or you have things to hide, you should not signup for pre-check.
You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide. |
Originally Posted by Spiff
(Post 24182746)
The regular "security" line should be Pre-check.
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Originally Posted by RadioGirl
(Post 24182705)
And that's going to work well because:
At least 99.99999999% of people who shop at CostCo are not terrorists. At least 99.99999999% of people who belong to their kid's PTA are not terrorists. At least 99.99999999% of people who have between 3 and 400 Facebook friends are not terrorists. At least 99.99999999% of people who pay with MasterCard are not terrorists. How do I know? Because at least 99.99999999% of people are not terrorists. |
Originally Posted by RadioGirl
(Post 24182705)
Everyone has the right to privacy. Would you object to having video cameras in your living room, bedroom and bathroom with images streamed to a big screen at the local shopping mall? If you've "got nothing to hide", why not?
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