Oh. Great. I've been risk assessed.
Dec. 3rd, 2006 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elbalesOh Mr. Constitution, you burn so good.
Don't think this needs any commentary from me, actually.
U.S. gov't terror ratings draw outrage
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 2, 3:52 AM ET
WASHINGTON - A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked, two-story brick building in Northern Virginia.
Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record) of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny of such government database-mining projects after reading that during the past four years millions of Americans have been evaluated without their knowledge to assess the risks that they are terrorists or criminals.
Don't think this needs any commentary from me, actually.
