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

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From: Jeff Jonas <[email protected]>
Date: October 6, 2006 5:33:33 PM EDT
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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
[email protected]
My blog: www.jeffjonas.typepad.com

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From: Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]>
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

Excerpt:

                 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.

---Rsk


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