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TSA Privacy Policy Slammed by EPIC

Judy Welles writes on FCW.com:

The Transportation Security Administration is denying airline passengers erroneously detained by an airport screening system any meaningful redress, a critic of the agency said today at the second public workshop held by the Homeland Security Department’s Privacy Office today.

David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, cited reports of people who have been misidentified and detained through the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) II and Secure Flight screening processes.

DHS, through TSA, is “conducting background checks on every citizen before boarding flights, and many have encountered problems," Sobel said.

posted by Fergie @ 4/05/2006 06:19:00 PM