USA: Yahoo! News - Uncle Sam Mothballs Screening Program: You should also see Bruce Schneier’s comments on false security. “Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Lee Tien said in a statement: ‘Finally, the Department of Homeland Security has recognized what EFF has been saying all along: the proposed CAPPS II system would be an ineffective, expensive, and unnecessary invasion of travelers’ privacy.’ David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told The Washington Post: ‘The effectiveness was never demonstrated, and we always thought it was likely to provide a false sense of security and divert resources.’”
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