10 dezembro 2002

ECO-TERRORES
Travelers face new screening at airports: Someday soon, the names of airline passengers will be fed into a mammoth computer network. Algorithms will be used to sort through personal records -- birth certificates, travel patterns, credit history, tax returns, driver's licenses, child-support payments, bank accounts, criminal records, charitable donations -- searching for threatening signs.
The computers will assign each traveler a score. The higher the score, the more risk a passenger would pose. Anyone whose score is too high would face lengthy delays while federal authorities investigate.
That system, an expanded version of the existing Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System -- CAPPS II for short -- could be in place by next year.