TSA Demands More Air Passenger Data

FYI;

how long will it take that every flight has to be under a flight plan and
one has to submit every passenger data?

martin
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source - http://cryptome.org/tsa092104.htm

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24 September 2004. The first three TSA notices below were published in the
Federal Register today, along with a fourth which was not offered with them
on the TSA web site on September 22.

22 September 2004. Thanks to J.
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Airlines Told to Turn Over Passenger Data

Updated: Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2004 - 4:30 PM

By LESLIE MILLER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration announced on
Tuesday that it will order domestic airlines to turn over personal
information about passengers to test a system that will compare their names
to those on terrorist watch lists.

The system, called Secure Flight, replaces a previous plan that would have
checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk
level to each. That plan, which cost $103 million, was abandoned because of
privacy concerns and technological issues.

The airlines will have 30 days to comment on the proposed order, which
Congress gave the TSA authority to issue. Air carriers will then have 10
days to turn over data that it gathered in June, called passenger name
records.
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