Homeland Security assigns terror scores to travelers

Traveler Screening

This is completely unacceptable. The people rejected such programs implemented domestically. So the government does it anyway and more on all person who cross any border including Mexico and Canada. It does it without informing Congress until long after the fact. The program tracks significant public and governmental data about travelers and combines it into a secret dossier that the person cannot see or address if it is inaccurate. The data is kept for 40 years! The system gives a score to each individual tracked as to the possibility of being or supporting some king of terrorism or of any old criminal activity the DHS may choose to include! So the dossier will contain guesses and allegations that the person can neither see nor rectify. This is utterly wrong.

The information can be shared wih all government agencies including local and with unspecified third parties. This means for instance that this information may show up when you apply for any job that goes through a commonplace background check. This is a disaster of huge proportions. It is far more than merely a "terrorism score". It is your government setting up the machinery to ruin your life based on possible mistakes, guesswork or malice of any official in the chain.


STAND UP AND SAY NO WAY NOW! While you still can.