DHS revises rules on what info can be collected, how long it can be held. ... The agency said it refined language from a January 15 notice published in the Federal Register and signed by DHS Secretary Tom Ridge that explained how the TSA will manage passenger information gathered for CAPPS II.
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The TSA says only that CAPPS will fuse threat data gathered from state, federal, ... CAPPS II will use neural-network profiling. Profiling is a surveillance technique that infers the characteristics of a particular class of person—in the case of CAPPS, a terrorist—from past experience and available personal data.
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Secure Flight and its predecessor, CAPPS II, have been criticized for secretly obtaining personal information about airline passengers and failing to do enough to protect it.
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Rather than the commercial data provider sending back any personal information, an identity authentication score will be returned to CAPPS II indicating the probability that the passenger is who he says he is.
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Business Studies Question: What Personal Information Is Gathered By CAPPS? ... What Is A Space Probe And What Valuable Information Has Been Gathered From Them? ... Should Personal Information Be Sent Through E-mail?
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David Stone, acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, indicated earlier this week that the agency would not move forward with CAPPS II as originally envisioned. Stone acknowledged that CAPPS II's intrusion upon personal privacy contributed to the decision to reconsider the program.
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TSA also has shown a proclivity to using personal information for reasons other than the ones for which the information was gathered or volunteered. ... For example, TSA stated that CAPPS II personal data might be disclosed to federal, state, local, foreign, or international agencies for their investigations of statute,
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The most common complaint among domestic critics is that sensitive personal information gathered under CAPPS II could be misused, giving the government surveillance power over ordinary people while doing little to deter sophisticated terrorists.
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If the expert was right, this stub would enable me to access Broer's personal information, ... This was called Capps, ... The BCBP wanted up to 60 pieces of information routinely gathered by booking agencies and stored as a Passenger Name Record, PNR. This included not only your flight details, name, address and so on,
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In the past, TSA has exhibited a proclivity for using personal information for reasons other than the ones for which the information was gathered or volunteered. ... For example, TSA stated that CAPPS II personal data might be disclosed to federal, state, local, foreign, or international agencies for their investigations...
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