[IP] more on Police at Logan Airport to Use BlackBerrys to Screen Passengers
Begin forwarded message:
From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry@xxxxxxxx>
Date: June 24, 2004 12:42:30 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Police at Logan Airport to Use BlackBerrys to Screen
Passengers
Dave,
This headline is somewhat absurd. The fact that Blackberrys will be
used to access law enforcement networks is no more interesting than
knowing exactly which cellular network a police detective's cellphone
uses. Likewise for the iPaqs that will access the FBI's National Crime
Information Center database.
Speaking of which, does the ACLU think that when the Transportation
Security Administration confronts a suspicious individual at an
airport, it won't, or shouldn't, make the same kind of check for
outstanding warrants that the highway patrol does when they pull
someone over?
There are plenty of things to be concerned with when it comes to
travel, law enforcement, and widespread datamining, but it isn't
obvious this is one of them.
Steven
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