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Le Département de Sécurité Intérieure des Etats-Unis a fait savoir hier qu’à partir de prochain lundi, le 4 décembre 2006, toute personne qui entre ou sort de ce pays fera l’objet d’une évaluation de risque terroriste sans en être au courant, et les résultats seront conservés pendant 40 ans.
De son coté, le groupe de défense des libertés civiles « Electronic Frontier Foundation » (EFF) (Fondation Frontière Électronique) a signalé que "le gouvernement se dispose à effectuer une ’évaluation de risque’ sur des millions de citoyens qui entrent sous le coup de cette la loi et cette évaluation les poursuivra le reste de leur vie. Et comme si cela n’était déjà pas suffisamment terrible, aucun de nous ne pourra connaître le résultat, ni pourra faire appel ".
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AMERICAN OR NOT TRAVELERS TO GET SECRET ’RISK ASSESSMENT’ SCORES.
EFF Fights Huge Data-Mining Program Set for Rollout on U.S. Borders
Washington, D.C. November 30, 2006.
An invasive and unprecedented data-mining system is set to be deployed on U.S. travelers Monday, despite substantial questions about Americans’ privacy. In comments sent to the ’Department of Homeland Security’ (DHS) today, the ’Electronic Frontier Foundation’ (EFF) asked the agency to delay the program’s rollout until it makes more details available to the public and addresses critical privacy and due process concerns.
The Automated Targeting System (ATS) will create and assign "risk assessments" to tens of millions of citizens as they enter and leave the country. Individuals will have no way to access information about their "risk assessment" scores or to correct any false information about them. But once the assessment is made, the government will retain the information for 40 years — as well as make it available to untold numbers of federal, state, local, and foreign agencies in addition to contractors, grantees, consultants, and others.
"The government is preparing to give millions of law-abiding citizens ’risk assessment’ scores that will follow them throughout their lives," said EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel. "If that wasn’t frightening enough, none of us will have the ability to know our own score, or to challenge it. Homeland Security needs to delay the deployment of this system and allow for an informed public debate on this dangerous proposal."
Earlier this month, EFF’s FLAG Project submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to DHS seeking more details about the ATS data-mining program, but the agency has not yet disclosed the requested information.
For EFF’s full comments to DHS :
For the DHS Federal Register notice announcing ATS :
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/...
Contact :
David Sobel
Senior Counsel
Electronic Frontier Foundation
sobel@eff.org
Traduction d’espagnol et recherches pour El Correo de :
Estelle et Carlos Debiasi.