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Line 1: {{Short description\|System to identify high risk entrants to the US}} The '''Automated Targeting System''' or ('''ATS''') is a [[United States]] [[Department of Homeland Security]] computerized system that, for every person who crosses U.S. borders, scrutinizes a large volume of data related to that person (see below), and then automatically assigns a rating for which the expectation is that it helps gauge whether this person may be placed within a risk group of [[terrorist]]s or other [[criminal]]s. Similarly ATS analyzes data related to container cargo.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=James Giermanski\|date=June 25, 2008\|title=Container Security: Is the Layered Approach Working?\|publisher=CSO online.com\|url=http://www.powersintlinc.com/pdf/CSO%20June%2008%20Layerd%20Security.pdf}}</ref> These ratings take many details into account, such as country of origin, how travel to the U.S. was funded, and the visitor's driving record. Other more mundane details are also ~~factor~~factored in, such as where the person is sitting on the flight and what they ordered for their meal. The existence of such a system was first discovered by the public in November 2006, when a mention of it appeared in the [[Federal Register]]. The system was first implemented in the late 1990s, and was significantly expanded shortly after the [[9/11 Terrorist Attacks]]. Line 61 ⟶ 62: [http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/07/2015236&from=rss Slashdot article discussing ATS] [http://www.epic.org/privacy/travel/ats/ EPIC - Automated Targeting System] [https://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2007/0108/032.html Brief Forbes article on ATS] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405014932/http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2007/0108/032.html \|date=2016-04-05 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070107113519/http://www.acte.org/initiatives/TravellerSecurity.php ACTE - North America Traveler Security and Data Privacy publications on ATS]