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Submission + - DHS implements TerroristRank app

Randym writes: Without notifying the public, federal agents for the past four years have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals. (Feds rate travelers for terrorism) Along with the recent announcement that, early next year, the US government will be the final arbitrar of who is allowed to come *and go* from the United States, [We're All Prisoners, Now: US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave USA], this makes the bland Nazi query, "Your papers, please." seem downright pleasant — not to mention obsolete, as DHS data-mining techniques now apparently reach into state motor registration bureaus as well. (When you go to get on a plane, they now have "...[your] travel records, including where [you] are from, how [you] paid for tickets, [your] motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal [you] ordered.") 'Creepy' doesn't even *begin* to describe it.

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