TSA meets with civil rights organizations on CAPPS II

March 24, 2003 - CAPPS News

The Transportation Services Agency (TSA) held a three-day "summit" meeting to discuss implications of the proposed CAPPS II profiling system with civil liberties and privacy advocates. Attendees included TSA Director Admiral James Loy, Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and members of the Washington D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). A TSA spokesperson said that the government plans to amend the controversial Federal Register notice of a database believed to be part of the CAPPS system, and promised that social security numbers and IRS records would not be used in CAPPS. A meeting between the TSA and privacy advocates in the Bay Area is expected in the next few weeks.

Source: Oakland Tribune

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Last updated March 24, 2003