Re: [FYI] System for tracking visitors to U.S.
On (am) Tue, 25 May 2004 01:24:03 +0200 sed (sprach) Jan Meyer
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/politics/24VISI.html?hp
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> SYSTEM FOR TRACKING VISITORS TO U.S.
> The Department of Homeland Security is getting ready to award a
> very large contract (perhaps worth as much as $15 billion) for
> a network of databases to track visitors to the country before
> and after they arrive. The system will attempt to show where
> the visitors are going and whether they pose a terrorist
> threat. The three companies vying for the contract, which is
> called US-Visit, are Accenture, Computer Sciences, and Lockheed
> Martin.
see also:
Milliardenauftrag für die Überwachung von Einreisenden in die USA
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47626
Die virtuelle Grenze
Welche Daten für das viele Milliarden teure US-Visit-System
verwendet werden, ist noch unbekannt, aber es wird die Grundlage
eines riesigen globalen Überwachungssystems darstellen
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/17496/1.html
Twister
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