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meatcleaver -> The nonsense of security (6/6/2006 7:05:01 AM)
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The European Court has ruled it is illegal for European governments to allow Airline companies to give private information on its citizens to the American authorities who require it because they say they need it for the fight against terrorism. This has been a peeve for many Europeans and one of the reasons for the claim in fall of European visitors to the US. It peeves me but I still go to the US.
I got back from the US this morning and turned the radio on while I made myself a coffee to hear a report on the BBC about the nonsense of this so called increased security measure. Apparently with a modicum of computer security knowledge and a discarded aeroplane ticket stub, one can find out all the private information one wants to know about an individual, from address, job, social security and passport numbers, how much they travel and who pays, the whole damn lot. Apparently it is so so easy now for a terrorist to steal someones identity and get into the US under an assumed identity than it was before. The whole internet is apparently awash with this information. Who thinks these security measures up and are they really anti-terrorist measures or is it just Big Brother watching us?
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