In privacy news, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit demanding the Department of Homeland Security disclose details of a program that assigns travelers crossing U.S. borders a computerized score rating their risk as terrorists or criminals. The risk assessments are kept on file for 40 years. Travelers are not allowed to see their own ratings. The program has affected nearly every traveler crossing U.S. borders in the last four years — including U.S. citizens. Electronic Frontier Foundation senior counsel David Sobel said: “[Homeland Security] needs to provide answers, and provide them quickly, to the millions of law-abiding citizens who are worried about this 'risk assessment' score that will follow them throughout their lives.”
EEF Sues DHS over Travel Screening Program
HeadlineDec 20, 2006