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Fast-Pass Air Travel System ‘Clear’ Data Stolen, Not So Fast Anymore
“Clear” is a fast-pass-esque air-travel system run by a 3rd party company that allows passengers to pay $100/year to pre-register all their humanly personal information in exchange for what amounts to a “fast pass through security” card seen on the left. The only down-side is what happens when all that insane amount of personal information is [...]
Continue reading...Requests Wanting off Terror Watch List Surge
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
That’s weird… people DON’T want to be a randomly compiled list of terrorists so their travel plans get delayed or completely cancelled? I don’t get it… Looks like the department of Homeland Security is fielding thousands of requests a month to get taken off the terror watch list as the algorithm used to put people on [...]
Continue reading...FBI Adding Anti-war Protesters to Criminal DB
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
When CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright left for a peace talk on October 3rd to Canada, they were surprised to be denied entrance into the country because their names were contained in the FBI’s Criminal Database; a DB typically set aside for names of “sex offenders, [...]
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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