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USA: Multiple air travel pre-screening processes use passenger information and transfer it to various systems

01 May 2007

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Government Accountability Office report: Aviation security: Efforts to Strengthen International Passenger Prescreening are Under Way, but Planning and Implementation Issues Remain (pdf)

"Federal privacy law requires agencies to inform the public about how the government uses their personal information. Although CBP officials have stated that they have taken and are continuing to take steps to comply with these requirements, the current prescreening process allows passenger information to be used in multiple prescreening procedures and transferred among various CBP prescreening systems in ways that are not fully explained in CBP’s privacy disclosures. If CBP does not issue all appropriate disclosures, the travelling public will not be fully aware of how their personal information is being used during the passenger prescreening process."

See: Washington Post report. The paper also reports that one of the five members of the newly-created US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has resigned because the Bush administration made over 200 changes to its first annual report: 2007 Report with deletions (pdf)

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