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[IP] more on 60 Minutes gets its hands on the no-fly list





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From: Jeff Jonas <jeffjonas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 6, 2006 5:33:33 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: [IP] 60 Minutes gets its hands on the no-fly list


Dave,

Paul Rosenzweig and I published a Heritage Foundation paper last year that discusses both this problem (wrongly matched) as well as redress considerations for those wrongly named. We suggested solving the false positive problem (every Gary Smith getting infringed) in a many that does not necessitate public records and/or large data aggregations.

Some of your IP subscribers may find this useful.

Correcting False Positives: Redress and the Watch List Conundrum
by Paul Rosenzweig and Jeff Jonas
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/lm17.cfm
Jeff Jonas
Distinguished Engineer and
Chief Scientist
IBM Entity Analytics
702.851.4697
JeffJonas@xxxxxxxxxx
My blog: www.jeffjonas.typepad.com

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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx>
Date: October 6, 2006 3:32:17 PM EDT
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Subject: 60 Minutes gets its hands on the no-fly list

                Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List
Steve Kroft reports lists includes President of Bolivia,
                dead 9/11 hijackers
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/ main2066624.shtml

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Gary Smith, John Williams and Robert Johnson are some of those names. Kroft talked to 12 people with the name Robert Johnson, all of whom are detained almost every time they fly. The detentions can include strip searches and long delays in their travels.

"Well, Robert Johnson will never get off the list," says Donna Bucella, who oversaw the creation of the list and has headed up the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center since 2003. She regrets the trouble they experience, but chalks it up to the price of security in the post-9/11 world. "They're going to be inconvenienced every time ... because they do have the name of a person who's a known or suspected terrorist," says Bucella.

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