Automated Targeting System: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:16, 9 February 2008

Revision as of 17:35, 14 March 2008

Line 81:

On December 19, 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) project filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security in federal court, demanding "immediate answers about an invasive and unprecedented data-mining system deployed on American travelers."<ref>[http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_12.php#005045 Press Releases: December, 2006 | Electronic Frontier Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

== Exemption from Data Privacy Act ==

Following the controversed [[Passenger Name Record]] agreement signeed with the [[European Union]] (EU) in 2007, the [[Bush administration]] gave exemption to the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and for the [[Arrival and Departure System]] (ADIS) from the [[1974 Privacy Act]] <ref name=Exemption> [[Statewatch]], [http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/sep/04eu-usa-pnr-exemptions.htm US changes the privacy rules to exemption access to personal data] September 2007 </ref>. ADIS is intended to authorise people to travel only after PNR and API ([[Advance Passenger Information]]) data has been checked and cleared by US agency watchlist <ref name=Exemption/>. The [[Automated Targeting System]] is also to be exempted <ref name=Exemption/>.

The Privacy Act does not protect non-US citizens, which is problematic for exchange of [[Passenger Name Record]] information between the US and the [[European Union]].

== References ==