Return to Article: DHS issues range of traveler screening rules
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"I guess wee're not in Kansas anymore, Toto", said Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Well, too bad for those posters who are perpetually worried about the evil police state, the UN, and alien abductions. Virtaully all Americans have some form of record, starting from birth. Privacy is not guarrantied by the Constitution when traveling, so why do people think it is? Post 9/11 we cannot afford the dumb, naive assumption that everyone is OK, and just want to get along with us. This view is uniquely American. Do some international traveling and you will find far more scrutiny in other countries. To paraphrase Ben Franklin: Those who would disregard safety for the illusion of privacy deserve neither safety nor privacy. Wake Up America!
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Why do I feel like we're turning into a police state? It sounds like Homeland Security will be collecting information on everyone traveling, whether U.S. citizens or not. And they'll be collecting information on everyone traveling in the U.S. or coming in from foreign countries.
They've recently developed new rules to report this information to intelligence agencies on foreigners traveling from foreign countries and around the U.S.
It doesn't seem like much of a leap that they could soon be transferring that information on U.S. citizens' travel to all intelligence agencies.
They're in the process of exempting the information collected from the Privacy Act. Are there any court remedies to this or will they exempt themselves from that too?
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now let's see how long it takes them to contract it out, probably to someone in India or China.
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