Oh dear
Information on passengers who took a commercial flight within the United States in June will be turned over to the government so it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists.
I don’t think there were any attacks in June so how exactly will that data test the system?
People will have a chance to tell the government what they think about the plan during a 30-day comment period, federal officials said on Tuesday.
Ok, I’ll start. It’s an unnecessary invasion of privacy; it has already cost $103M; it will cost much, much more to keep going; and it will not prevent a single terror attack.
How was that?
September 22nd, 2004 at 7:06 pm
do you know much about the databases that they have built.
in one study in the top 70 names of the list it produced like 10 of the sept eleventh killers where in it.
secondly, when you are scanning that much data you only look for the bad records you ignore the hundreds of millions you don’t care about.
September 23rd, 2004 at 6:44 am
Hey, Cube. Do you know much about databases at all? The beauty of databases is I can massage the data many ways and do many things with it. Just because I say I am going to ignore most of the data does not mean I will ignore most of the data (I said I would find WMDs and did not). Also, if I were doing a test to find 70 names in a database where I knew everything I already needed to know about those 70 names, yeah, it would be pretty easy to find. Finding the unknown is another question, and Edward Kennedy does not count.
In other words, I agree with SayUncle, “It’s an unnecessary invasion of privacy; it has already cost $103M; it will cost much, much more to keep going; and it will not prevent a single terror attack.”