Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights

Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by noknownsender on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:27AM (#20886427)

I had that thought as well, but I would think that it would just prompt a quick second look by the TSA (or whoever).

They Check the box, then the screen agent takes a closer look, "Hmm, this nine year old indian girl named Charles Manson is probably not the 70+ year old dead man that we were worried about"

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Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by tinus_hn on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:48AM (#20893819)

Perhaps if you check the box the system doesn’t allocate the biggest clown in the circus to your check and you get someone who can reason like, it says Osama but the terrorist Osama is dead. So it must be someone else.

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Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by wil421 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:19AM (#20887587)

I’d imagine the system would even show the wanted person next to the person in front of you. But then again the TSA is probably using an abstraction over an Access DB built by the lowest bidder in the early 2000s.

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