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255. From Nadine W, 22 October 2004, 08:39:38 AM PST
I could not have said it any better, so I have used the words from unsecureflights.com.
1. Since when did the Executive Branch have the right to stop Americans from traveling?
2. More than 120,000 names are on terrorist watch lists that the TSA will use to screen fliers. Nowhere does the TSA mention testing the right of passengers to seek redress of an error. It is also mute on how a flier who is wrongly placed on the watch list could have his or her name removed.
3. No one who flew in June of 2004 gave their permission for that information to be turned-over to the government. This appears to be an illegal data dump as no Privacy Act notice was given.
4. The TSA has a horrible record on privacy. During the past two years, the TSA secretly obtained millions of travel records from several airlines and airline-reservation systems and passed these records on to private contractors.
5. TSA already has millions of travel records and ran testing on these records. Why do they need more records? What were the results of the earlier testing?
6. No one within the TSA has been punished for the earlier, secret privacy invasions.
7. The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), still hasn't completed their investigation into all of TSA's previous privacy violations.
8. The terrorist watch lists are a mess. TSA will use lists that have been proven to be inaccurate in order to test a system that has no proven effectiveness: garbage in, garbage out.
9. The millions of tax dollars that will be spent on 'Secure Flight' would be better spent on things we know will work, such as cargo screening, better training for TSA employees, and point-to-point baggage matching.
10. This is America, not Communist China. Internal border controls are un-American.
254. From Larry K, Ambler, PA, 22 October 2004, 08:15:02 AM PST
Since when did the Executive Branch have the right to stop Americans from traveling?
More than 120,000 names are on terrorist watch lists that the TSA will use to screen fliers. Nowhere does the TSA mention testing the right of passengers to seek redress of an error. It is also mute on how a flier who is wrongly placed on the watch list could have his or her name removed.
No one who flew in June of 2004 gave their permission for that information to be turned-over to the government. This appears to be an illegal data dump as no Privacy Act notice was given.
The TSA has a horrible record on privacy. During the past two years, the TSA secretly obtained millions of travel records from several airlines and airline-reservation systems and passed these records on to private contractors.
TSA already has millions of travel records and ran testing on these records. Why do they need more records? What were the results of the earlier testing?
No one within the TSA has been punished for the earlier, secret privacy invasions.
The inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), still hasn't completed their investigation into all of TSA's previous privacy violations.
The terrorist watch lists are a mess. TSA will use lists that have been proven to be inaccurate in order to test a system that has no proven effectiveness: garbage in, garbage out.
The millions of tax dollars that will be spent on 'Secure Flight' would be better spent on things we know will work, such as cargo screening, better training for TSA employees, and point-to-point baggage matching.
This is America, not Communist China. Internal border controls are un-American.
253. From Christopher M, Gray, ME, 22 October 2004, 08:09:36 AM PST
Such watchlists violate my 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and
either the 9th or 10th amendments in the bill of rights.
Furthermore, they change the presumption of innocence to
a presumption of guilt.
Identification has nothing to do with airplane safety. The
insecurities the public feel are instead being exploited to
justify the construction of a checkpoint society.
Sure I have choice, I can choose not to fly. How long before
I must choose not to take a train or a bus? Or to drive
or to have a license?
252. From Katheen C, Hillsboro, NM, 22 October 2004, 08:05:12 AM PST
Again our current administration has gone beyond what is reasonable and logical in protecting Americans from terrorist attacks. Americans need not lose their civil liberties in order to keep our country safe. We need our tax dollars to be spent protecting nueclear power plants, examining baggage holds, cargo holds and our ports.
250. From Eric F, 21 October 2004, 03:02:18 PM PST
I am very concerned about TSA plans to use live data in a system test. As an information technology professional, I consider this a serious abuse of trust that is unethical and unprofessional.
We are supposed to have Constitutional protection from unreasonable search and seizure. It seems to me that using untested systems on such sensitive data qualifies as unreasonable, making the test unconstitutional.
Please find other ways to improve our transportation security. Properly training your baggage screeners would be a really good start.
248. From Mike V, Long Beach, CA, 21 October 2004, 02:54:18 PM PST
I was sitting in the Oakland, California airport at 5:48am on September 11, 2001 when the world turned upside down and everything changed for all of us.
I've endured my share of travel inconveniences since then, but put up with most of them to continue to enjoy the priviledge of free travel. But I will never agree with the kind of foolishness that can ground Senator Ted Kennedy or keep anyone off of their flight when they are clearly not a risk.
CAPPS II is exactly that kind of foolishness and I encourage everyone to resist their personal travel details being stored, analyzed and scrutinized the way this bad law is designed to do.
I urge everyone to take action to stop the foolishness of CAPPS II and now "SecureFlight".
http://PrivacyNotes.com/privacy_blog/
247. From Timothy M, Seattle, Wa, 21 October 2004, 02:53:58 PM PST
""Those who are willing to sacrifice essential
freedom for security deserve neither."
-Ben Franklin
246. From David W, Yakima, WA, 21 October 2004, 02:53:21 PM PST
This government has no right collecting this information and keeping dossiers on travelers. I am more afraid of this practice than terrorist. I ask that this practice be stopped immediately.
Thank you
245. From Ryan S, Dallas, TX, 21 October 2004, 02:46:14 PM PST
I flew in June 2004, and I'm pretty sure my boss doesn't want you guys having his credit card info!
Don't blow past millions of civilian's right to privacy because you're too lazy to type in fresh, FAKE, data to test with!
242. 21 October 2004, 02:43:57 PM PST
Invasive, abusive and intrusive! Of all of the agencies I would not want to manage my personal information, it's the TSA. This organization was quickly thrown together after 9-11 to check baggage and travelers' pocket contents for box cutters and nail clippers. It consists largely of minimum wage individuals whom, in all due respect, have never been trained to handle matters of national security. Providing the TSA with names, vital statistics, various addresses, electronic identifiers, travel schedules, credit card information, etc. without consent carries with it the potential of resulting in incalculable harm to innocent travelers. The remedy for airline passengers who are detained, searched, interrogated, embarrassed and humiliated without any valid reason is not defined in the Act. One must assume that governmental immunity arguably attaches to even the most grievace of abuses. The case of Senator Kennedy comes immediately to mind. This act is indefensible by any standards. I traveled in June. Not in my wildest imagination did I ever think that my personal information was to be seized by the government and thrown into a hopper along with known and unknown terrorist suspects. I don't trust the government to use this information responsibly--and, certainly not the TSA!
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