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Privacy worries doom screening plan for airlines.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 16-JUL-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Privacy worries doom screening plan for airlines.(NATION)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Audrey Hudson, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Homeland Security Department, citing privacy concerns, is abandoning a plan to create a giant database of personal information from airline passengers and assign color codes to determine the risk that each might be a terrorist.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress directed the federal government to improve the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) to prevent terrorist strikes. In response, the Transportation Security Administration in the Homeland Security Department began developing...

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