Automated Targeting System: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
No edit summary
Changing short description from "Used to identify entrants to the US who may be criminals" to "System to identify high risk entrants to the US"
 
Line 1:
{{Short description|UsedSystem to identify high risk entrants to the US who may be criminals}}
The '''Automated Targeting System''' ('''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>