Battle escalates over fliers' personal data
Source: Yahoo! News
08/24/05
The Homeland SecurityDepartment is making another push to get personal data on airline passengers in an effort to keep terrorists off flights. The lobbying effort comes months after the House and Senate, concerned about invading privacy, gave preliminary approval to a measure that would ban the department from tapping into credit reports, court files, shopping histories and other personal information for one year. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wants Congress to scrap the pending ban so the government can make passenger information 'more complete and accurate' when it compares names with those of suspected terrorists, according to department spokesman Russ Knocke...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
08/24/05
The Homeland SecurityDepartment is making another push to get personal data on airline passengers in an effort to keep terrorists off flights. The lobbying effort comes months after the House and Senate, concerned about invading privacy, gave preliminary approval to a measure that would ban the department from tapping into credit reports, court files, shopping histories and other personal information for one year. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wants Congress to scrap the pending ban so the government can make passenger information 'more complete and accurate' when it compares names with those of suspected terrorists, according to department spokesman Russ Knocke...
Link: http://tinyurl.com/dgc5s
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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