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Profiling Terrorists With Pattern Recognition Software

Louis Lingg writes: "Pattern Recognition software has long been used by credit card companies to detect fraud, by banks to detect money laundering, and by brokerage houses to detect stock-trading irregularities. It is once again being proposed for airline use in determining and managing risk in the transportation system. businessweek online has posted Rating Travelers for Risk by Alex Salkever.

Back in April 1999 wired posted a piece by Declan McCullagh examining the privacy implications and other issues arising from implementation of such systems: You? A Terrorist? Yes!"