In his budget proposal for 2005, President Bush has requested a significant increase in funding for the controversial Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) II. The system being developed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), is expected to receive $60 million in 2005 funding, an increase of over $15 million requested for 2004. CAPPS II has come under fire from privacy advocates who fear that passengers’ personal information may be unnecessarily shared or stored in government databases.

Related links: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/cappsii/
http://www.hasbrouck.org/articles/CAPPS-II.html
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61891,00.html

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