Who's Sorry Now?
Turns out technological advances go both ways...they make our lives easier in many ways....but we're all learning how they can give others a "bird's eye view" into our lives....and many times when we don't know it.
That's what the bozos at TSA have been doing...and you just KNOW this list has got to be as flawed as their NO FLY list. Plus, the data can be shared with all kinds of people and agencies...but not YOU. Seems somehow unAmerican, no?
MSN In comments to the government about ATS, Sobel said, “Some individuals will be denied the right to travel and many the right to travel free of unwarranted interference.”
Sobel said in the interview that the government notice also raises the possibility that faulty risk assessments could cost innocent people jobs in shipping or travel, government contracts, licenses or other benefits.
The government notice says some or all of the ATS data about an individual may be shared with state, local and foreign governments for use in hiring decisions and in granting licenses, security clearances, contracts or other benefits. In some cases, the data may be shared with courts, Congress and even private contractors.
“Everybody else can see it, but you can’t,” Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration lawyer who teaches at Cornell Law school, said in an interview.
