Every time you leave or enter the United States, or have something shipped out of the country or shipped to you from outside the U.S., your Department of Homeland Security will log the following information about you in a database and keep in on file for 40 years: DHS Automated Targeting System

ATS–P (Automated Targeting System–Passenger), a component of ATS,
maintains the PNR information obtained from commercial carriers for
purposes of assessing the risk of international travelers. PNR may
include such items as:
PNR record locator code,
Date of reservation,
Date(s) of intended travel,
Name,
Other names on PNR,
Number of travelers on PNR,
Seat information,
Address,
All forms of payment information,
Billing address,
Contact telephone numbers,
All travel itinerary for specific PNR,
Frequent flyer information,
Travel agency,
Travel agent,
Code share PNR information,
Travel status of passenger,
Split/Divided PNR information,
Identifiers for free tickets,
One-way tickets,
E-mail address,
Ticketing field information,
Automated Ticketing Fare Quote (ATFQ) fields,
General remarks,
Ticket number,
Seat number,
Date of ticket issuance,
Any collected APIS information,
No show history,
Number of bags,
Bag tag numbers,
Go show information,
Number of bags on each segment,
Other Supplementary information (OSI),
Special Services information (SSI),
Special Services Request (SSR),
Voluntary/involuntary upgrades,
Received from information, and
All historical changes to the PNR
Not all carriers maintain the same sets of information for PNR.

Note the collection of even credit card information and your email address. The DHS will also automatically create a “risk assessment” of each person entering or leaving the U.S. to determine their potential as a terrorist threat. (I imagine bloggers are going to get nailed here )

This will be tied into the Treasury Enforcement Communication Systems (TECS) which appears to be a huge database of databases, capable of pulling up large quantities of information about you, certainly including public records, and especially law enforcement records, and government licenses held. In our New World Order, I suspect that those holding a pilots license or perhaps having a degree in engineering will be judged as possibly greater threats than those with degrees in English literature. The system is also potentially linked to massive databases from companies like Acxiom and Checkpoint which record all purchases you make with credit cards and checks in huge databases. The latter track everything you buy — often integrating multiple databases — to sell demographic information about you to marketing organizations. Large transactions, large bank withdrawals will likely be tagged as indicating an increased risk. The list of potential databases checked is staggering.

Starts to sound a lot like Total Information Awareness, the DARPA project that was dropped after citizen and Congressional outcry. It did not really go away though — it has just shown up in many other locations.

If I am following all this, the moment you enter the U.S. (as a U.S. citizen), the Border Patrol and Customers Officers will enter your identification and the computer will instantly analyze your threat potential based upon the unaudited data stored in numerous databases.

Then maybe it is no difference from what people are foolishly posting on MySpace and Facebook. I just joined Facebook and joined the university “network” where I work — which links me to everyone else, students, staff, faculty, alumni, who have also enrolled. Clicking a few others listed in the network, at random, showed all of the displaying their birthday, and many also displaying their address and even phone numbers, as well as their photo. What are people thinking? (Or maybe not thinking?)