According to the Washington Post the CAPPS II program is back under the new name "Secure Flight." This is apparently a program designed to improve our safety by deciding who should go to GITMO using the same databases that get our credit history wrong. Recent "Terrorists" identified by the similar "no fly list" include Senator Edward Kennedy and Yusuf Islam, the singer who was once known as Cat Stephens.
The federal government said yesterday that it will order airlines to turn over millions of passenger records by November so it can begin testing a vast computer program that will hunt for suspected terrorists seeking to board commercial aircraft.Yahoo! News - U.S. Orders Airlines To Release Fliers' Data
update: Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stephens) has been deported by U.S officials.
Posted by bill at September 22, 2004 04:19 PM