Feature on CAPPS II

CAPPS II

The proposed airline profiling program CAPPS II (for Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling System) was terminated in August 2004 and replaced by a similar program called Secure Flight.

CAPPS II was a proposal to give the government a new role unprecedented in American life: running background checks on Americans who fly, and giving them a ""risk score."" Secretive, lacking due process protections for people who are unfairly tagged, and yet easy for terrorists to circumvent, this program once put in place will grow into a most un-American system of internal border controls.

General Accounting Office Report on Shortcomings of CAPPS II

Introduction:
The Seven Problems With CAPPS II

General Accounting Office Report on CAPPS II

Links on European Cooperation with CAPPS II

European Parliament Report Condemning Passenger Data Sharing (02/24/2004)
Report by European Privacy Groups on EU-US Passenger Privacy, with comments by ACLU (02/02/2004)
ACLU Memorandum on EU Passenger Data Sharing (02/02/2004)
EU-US Agreement on data sharing
Letter to European Commission from EU privacy officials on whether CAPPS II participation is permitted by EU privacy law (02/06/2004)
Opinion of EU Privacy Officials on the EU-US Agreement (1/29/2004)
Press release New Report Shows Why Americans Must Join With Europeans To Protect Privacy, ACLU Says (02/02/2004)

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