HowTo: Request Your Own DHS Travel Dossier
Sep 25, 2007, 8:28 pm
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HowTo: Request Your Own DHS Travel Dossier
The Department of Homeland Security already knows everything about your travel. Now, for the first time, The Identity Project makes it easy for you to request the unclassified parts of the dossier that the DHS has complied on you.
Sep 25, 2007, 9:28 pm
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According to the linked website, the information regarding the types of personal data DHS collects for both you domestic and international travel is truly scary.
Sep 25, 2007, 9:40 pm
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Mad props to you, Bill! What a great service you and everyone at The Identity Project have provided to the public.
Please keep us posted on hits to your site on this matter, if you can.
Please keep us posted on hits to your site on this matter, if you can.
Sep 25, 2007, 10:38 pm
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Interesting... But the Privacy Act Release Form seems to relate only to US citizens. Is there some way that I, as a foreigner who visits the USA regularly, can get access to the information held on me?
Sep 25, 2007, 10:56 pm
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Alas, not from US agencies. We're working on ways to make it easier for Europeans to file requests with their respective data protection commissioners.
Sep 25, 2007, 11:08 pm
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Originally Posted by UnSecureFlight.com
Warning: You can only request records on behalf of yourself or others with their written explicit permission. There are severe penalties for making requests for records on someone else without their knowledge.
Sep 26, 2007, 12:50 am
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The Department of Homeland Security already knows everything about your travel. Now, for the first time, The Identity Project makes it easy for you to request the unclassified parts of the dossier that the DHS has complied on you.
What could these geeks be classifying on someone flying to Cleveland?
Sep 26, 2007, 1:08 am
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I'm with Nick and Lurker, a little concerned that asking for the info will just make them think that I need to be watched even more and "randomly selected" all the time.
Sep 26, 2007, 8:07 am
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Sep 26, 2007, 8:36 am
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Are people resident in the US who have no intention of ever becoming a US citizen able to request their dossier?... or is the method suggested by essxjay the only workaround available?