-Caveat Lector- Write some letters, dudes.... ---------------------- Forwarded by Lyn McCloskey/Towers Perrin on 04/21/99 09:13 AM --------------------------- SCAN THIS NEWS 4/21/99 The Federal Aviation Administration has just announced a new proposed rule requiring commercial airlines to adopt and implement new baggage/passenger screening policies. Our "NoNID" (No National ID) campaign uses an orange ribbon because airline passengers who does not carry proper, government-issued ID are tagged at the airports with an orange ribbon or sticker. Jackie Juntti (the Grassroots Granny of Washington State, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) was required to wear just such an orange ribbon in a recent flight and subsequently she adopted the orange ribbon campaign to symbolize resistance to national identification and monitoring schemes. More anecdotal information will follow soon. Scott ----------------------------------- Attention! A New Federal Profiling System: A new proposed regulation by the Federal Aviation Administration for enhanced standards for passenger profiling. Free Congress will be preparing comments and would be happy to furnish any group with information who is willing to do the same. I would encourage everyone to send comments and urge others to do the same. Organizations and individuals can both send comments to the FAA. Here is the information needed for those interested in reading up on the issue. Free Congress will be preparing a memo outlining the dangers related to passenger profiling and enhanced security measures with regard to checked baggage security. It will be similar to the one done late last year on the Know Your Customer program. This memo will be available on our website no later than Thursday, April 22nd. Thank you. Lisa S. Dean, Vice President for Technology Policy (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Julie Malone, Coalition Coordinator (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) phone: (202) 546-3000 fax: (202) 544-2819 http://www.freecongress.org/ ----------------------------------- [The rule is available online at the FAA web site] http://www.faa.gov/avr/arm/nprm/nprm.htm RULE SUMMARY [excerpts]: "The FAA is proposing that each certificate holder [commercial airlines] required under §108.5 to adopt and implement an FAA-approved security program screen checked baggage or conduct passenger-to-bag matching for scheduled passenger operations within the United States... . The security of checked baggage on domestic flights may be accomplished by ... utilizing the FAA-approved computer-assisted passenger screening (CAPS) system to select passengers whose checked baggage must be subjected to additional security measures." DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 18, 1999. ADDRESSES: Comments on this proposed rulemaking should be mailed or delivered, in duplicate, to: U.S. Department of Transportation Dockets, Docket No. FAA-1999-5536; 400 Seventh St., SW, Rm. Plaza 401, Washington, DC 20590. Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments may be filed and/or examined in Room Plaza 401 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays, except federal holidays. ----------------------------------- Tourist or Terrorist? by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19218.html 3:00 a.m. 20.Apr.99.PDT WASHINGTON -- A US$2.8-billion monitoring system championed by Vice President Gore will use computer profiles to single out airline passengers for investigation and scrutiny. Airlines will use a secret algorithm to compare travelers' personal data to profiles of likely terrorists, according to a new proposed federal regulation. Other travelers will be chosen at random. Critics complain the plan shows that Gore doesn't really support privacy. Last May, the vice president told an audience of graduating students at New York University that privacy "is a basic American value." "He's been talking about privacy and the protection of personal information online, but those principles that he talks about don't parallel what he's done. He's tried to force intrusive measures into law," says Lisa Dean, vice president of the Free Congress Foundation. "We'd have even more of this with a President Gore." The vice president chaired a high-level White House commission that in 1997 released recommendations that the Federal Aviation Administration compiled into a 40-page rule published Monday. [...remainder snipped...] ----------------------------------- [A related article] ----------------------------------- Fear of Flying Special Report http://www.faa.gov/avr/arm/nprm/nprm.htm by Declan McCullagh Washington, DC, 11 September John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, knows firsthand how drastically airports in the United States are altering their policies in response to the nation's perceived vulnerability to terrorists. When Gilmore opened his laptop for inspection by airport personnel at San Francisco International last month - as requested - but refused to turn the machine on, the cops were called. When he then refused to show identification to airport police, "they put the handcuffs on me and hauled me off," he told The Netizen. The cops took Gilmore to a back-room office. "They tried to ask me questions. I said I wanted to speak to my lawyer. They kept asking me questions anyway," he says. 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