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Alerts for 12/03/07
Discussion: Would you provide more personal data?
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 jimglab |
Would you provide more personal data?
Nov 30 2007, 1:36 PM EST Airlines and travel agencies are reportedly opposing a TSA plan to ask passengers for their full names, gender and birth date every time they make a reservation (see this week’s story). Would you mind providing the extra data when you book? TSA says it’s needed to cut down on false matches against the government’s terror watch list. Post your comments here. 4 out of 6 found this valuable. Do you? |
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sg92676 sg92676 |
RE: Would you provide more personal data?
Dec 3 2007, 5:32 PM EST "Airlines and travel agencies are reportedly opposing a TSA plan to ask passengers for their full names, gender and birth date every time they make a reservation (see this week’s story). Would you mind providing the extra data when you book? TSA says it’s needed to cut down on false matches against the government’s terror watch list. Post your comments here. "I have no objection to providing this data, but I feel this is just adding a bandaid to a basically ineffective tool. It is another tactic that affects the wrong people, i.e. the law-abiding ones. I really object to the terror watch list itself, at least the way it is now constructed and managed. I find it hard to believe that it has protected anyone from a real terrorist, who might be smart enough to not use any of his aliases on it, but has "protected" us from a lot of normal folks and inconvenienced many more for no significant gain. United's comment about "seeking useless data caries (sic) an unacceptably high price tag" is true of the whole terror watch list approach to security, in my view. I think the fact that the list is growing is a bad sign and a clue to its ineffectiveness. If TSA were really focussing on identifying the right people to worry about, the list should be getting shorter and just maybe (gasp!) more accurate. 0 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Scotty410 Scotty410 |
RE: Would you provide more personal data?
Dec 3 2007, 8:43 PM EST Most Drivers Licenses contain all this informaiton and picture too...the airlines and travel agencies...probably object to the extra work time it will take to add this information to the reservation, while having to explain this new requirement to many passengers too. Then again, this informaiton is contained in the frequent flyer profiles that airlines have been compiling since 9/11. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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wanderer wanderer |
RE: Would you provide more personal data?
Dec 6 2007, 11:27 AM EST I hesitate to provide more personal data. Early on I was on some TSA watch list (obviously in error) and it took going to Tom Ridge to get off the list. I know all my personal data is floating around the universe in so many databases but proactively giving even more data makes me uncomfortable. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ConstitutionFirst ConstitutionFirst |
RE: Would you provide more personal data?
Dec 7 2007, 3:37 PM EST NO WAY, this just shows what a police state the US had become. Russia has cards to authorize travel beyond certain limits. No we are close to the same thing. The stinking government wants to control everything and everyone. If it wants to protect us throw all non citizen moslems out of the country and then we will be safe. They just want control. As I've said since 9/11, change the national anthem to land of the oppresse3d and homw of the cowards. Do you find this valuable? |