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Delta passenger catagory { March 1 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=27852§ion=NEWS&subsection=FOCUS&year=2003&month=3&day=1 Are you green, yellow, or red? http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=27852§ion=NEWS&subsection=FOCUS&year=2003&month=3&day=1 Saturday, March 1, 2003 System will grade passengers' threat level Civil liberties watchdogs worry that privacy will be violated. By LESLIE MILLER The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Defense contractor Lockheed-Martin will develop a new system to check background information and assign a threat level to all commercial air passengers, the Transportation Department announced Friday. The company was awarded a five-year contract to administer the program. The first phase of the contract is worth $12.8 million, transportation officials said. Civil-liberties watchdogs see the potential for unconstitutional invasions of privacy and for database mix-ups that could lead to innocent people being branded security risks. "This system threatens to create a permanent blacklisted underclass of Americans who cannot travel freely," said Katie Corrigan, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Brian Roehrkasse, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said a privacy officer will be assigned to safeguard civil liberties. The system, ordered by Congress after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will gather much more information on passengers than previously. Delta Air Lines will try it out at three undisclosed airports in about a month. A comprehensive system could be in place by the end of the year. The nationwide computer system, which will check such things as credit reports and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on watch lists. Transportation officials say CAPPS II - Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System - will use databases that already operate in line with privacy laws. No data from the background checks will be stored. CAPPS II will collect data and rate passengers' risk potential according to a three- color system: green, yellow, red. When travelers check in, their names will be punched into the system and their boarding passes encrypted with the ranking. Transportation Security Administration screeners will check passes. Copyright 2003 The Orange County Register

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