[Infowarrior] - No-Fly To Be Cleaned; Secure Flight Delayed

[Richard Forno]

...amazing what happens -- and how quickly -- when you're no longer the
majority in town and run the risk of damning hearings, investigations, and
oversight....  --rf


No-Fly To Be Cleaned; Secure Flight Delayed
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/nofly_to_be_cle.html

The airport security watchlists that a few short years ago were so secret
the government wouldn't acknowledge they even existed now being cleaned of
erroneous listings, a top Homeland Security official told Congress
Wednesday.

Additionally, the long-delayed, beleaguered upgrade to the current watchlist
checking by airlines -- first known as CAPPS II then Secure Flight -- won't
be deployed until sometime in 2008, Transportation Security Administration
chief Kip Hawley said. TSA is mandated by Congress to fix the current
system. The TSA has labored to find a way to have government agents, rather
than airline computer systems, compare travelers to the lists. But the
logistics of connecting airline databases to the government's system
combined with successive privacy scandals over the project's secret use of
airline data and dreams of using private data sources to verify and rate
travelers' risk has stymied the program since first announced in 2002.

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