CAPPS II: Even Serious US Paranoids Didn't See It Coming

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Wed, May 14, 2003 11:38PM

Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening II program, better known as CAPPS II, is a passenger-profiling system that would have made Heinrich Himmler proud. Even history's most notoriously obsessive collector of records about minutia couldn't compete with this modern-day legal atrocity. When it comes to cataloging your most intimate individualities, CAPPS II wins hands down. There has never been anything like it, not even close.

http://www.sfbayguardian.com/37/33/x_nessie.html

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All liberty is, at its core, individual liberty. No matter how broad the parameters of the profile you fit, when the profilers grab you, it's you the individual that they grab. As my regular readers are well aware , profile parameters can be very broad indeed. You no longer have to be of Middle Eastern appearance, a young black male, or from a country suspected of harboring terrorists, to be suspect, or to find yourself a victim of profiling. All you have to do is travel, especially by air.

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http://www.sfbayguardian.com/37/33/x_nessie.html

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