Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, the European Community has recently agreed to pass all sorts of information concerning air travellers to the US (if travelling with US carriers, probably to other destinations too), Credit Card numbers, choice of on-board food, seat preferences, how the journey was booked and from where, to name but a few. All this with the only condition being that the US "promises" to delete the data after 3 months (We Europeans believe anything :-) ). Douglas Jim Hemenway schrieb: > Of some interest to traveling photographers, the Department of > Homeland Security is about to decide on a company to build a "virtual > border," a massive database and biometric network that will track > visitors to the United States long before they get here. Cost will be > up to $15 billion. > > http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/content_multi_image/content_multi_image_0006.xml > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/