[IP] New U.S. Customs Database
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061103-8143.html
US Customs announces massive new database on trucks and travelers
11/3/2006 10:51:44 AM, by Nate Anderson
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US Customs and Border Protection issued a notice in the Federal
Register yesterday which detailed the agency's massive database that
keeps risk assessments on every traveler entering or leaving the
country. Citizens who are concerned that their information is
inaccurate are all but out of luck: the system "may not be accessed
under the Privacy Act for the purpose of contesting the content of
the record."
The system in question is the Automated Targeting System, which is
associated with the previously-existing Treasury Enforcement
Communications System. TECS was built to screen people and assets
that moved in and out of the US, and its database contains more than
one billion records that are accessible by more than 30,000 users at
1,800 sites around the country. Customs has adapted parts of the TECS
system to its own use and now plans to screen all passengers, inbound
and outbound cargo, and ships.
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