Press Release: House Committee Needs to Ask Tough Questions About Domestic Data-Mining Surveillance Systems
Overview of CAPPS II
The Computer-Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System (CAPPS II) would search secret intelligence and law enforcement databases and rate every airline passenger a red-, yellow- or green-level threat. This secretive new system for conducting background checks on all airline passengers threatens to create a blacklist of Americans who cannot travel freely. >Read the Coalition Letter to the House Select Committee on Homeland Security Uring Opposition to CAPPS II
Overview of TIA
The Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program may be the closest thing to a true "Big Brother" program that has ever been seriously contemplated in the United States. It is based on a vision of pulling together as much information as possible about as many people as possible into an "ultra-large-scale" database, making that information available to government officials, and sorting through it to try to identify terrorists. Since the amount of public and private information on our lives is growing by leaps and bounds every week, a government project that seeks to put all that information together is a radical and frightening thing. >Read More