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kilgram
08-16-2015, 06:46 PM
Well, I don't know what to tell about these news, just I can summarize it with a sentence:

"Minority Report".

News in the Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments)



The Obama administration’s no-fly lists and broader watchlisting system is based on predicting crimes rather than relying on records of demonstrated offenses, the government has been forced to admit in court.

In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/fbi) conceded that stopping US and other citizens from travelling on airplanes is a matter of “predictive assessments about potential threats”, the government asserted in May.
“By its very nature, identifying individuals who ‘may be a threat to civil aviation or national security’ is a predictive judgment intended to prevent future acts of terrorism in an uncertain context,” Justice Department officials Benjamin C Mizer and Anthony J Coppolino told the court on 28 May.

Peter1469
08-16-2015, 06:56 PM
Israel does a good job with it.