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[jebbypal]

TSA to hold hearings on their secure flight plan on Sept 20

This plan includes such brilliant details as:

We propose that, when the Secure Flight rule becomes final, aircraft operators would submit passenger information to DHS through a single DHS portal for both the Secure Flight and APIS programs. This would [result] in one DHS system responsible for watch list matching for all aviation passengers.

The proposal ... require[s] that travellers display their government-issued credentials not to government agents but to airline personnel (staff or contractors), whenever the DHS orders the airline to demand them. But since the orders to demand ID of [certain passengers] will be given to the airline in secret, ... travellers will have no way to verify whether ... demands for ID are actually based on government orders.

Lovely.

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[deathisyourart.livejournal.com]

Let the abuses BEGIN!

Okay...so how many people can gain access to your private info now? The FBI; the CIA; the CSS; Secret Service; D.A.s, customs officials, cops, and judges with a warrant; the DND; Homeland security; possibly FEMA, and now random airport Personnel!?

First, I want to know how in the world these agencies don't step all over one another, and then I want to know exactly what is private anymore?

[jebbypal]

exactly what is private anymore?

Presumably, which leg you put into your pants first when you dress. That's my best guess.