HomeSec Blacklist to be Available to Private Companies

unassimilatible writes "The Washington Times reports that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are developing a database that will allow private companies to submit lists of individuals to be screened for a connection to terrorism. The database will eventually allow private-sector entities, such as operators of critical infrastructure facilities or organizers of large events, to submit a list of persons associated with those events to the U.S. government to be screened for any nexus to terrorism. All of this won't be cheap either; total terror-related IT spending by US federal and state governments will run past $100 billion in 2004. But don't feel left out Europeans, since the EU is considering a terror database as well, although France and UK are reluctant to share intel."

Sharing Intel is like sharing needles!

[Bombcar]

although France and UK are reluctant to share intel

I know how that is! I'm an AMD guy myself, and "Friends don't let friends use Intel." :)

Meh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Credit checks, terrorism checks, reference checks, drug checks, DNA checks, resume screening...

And still HR drones can't hire competant people.

Re:Can we say McCarthyism?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, don't be knocking my man McCarthy. He was a true American patriot whose only concern was the safety of our country.

Re:Sharing Intel is like sharing needles!

[Tackhead]

> > although France and UK are reluctant to share intel
>
> I know how that is! I'm an AMD guy myself, and "Friends don't let friends use Intel." :)

"When you run SETI@Home on an Athlon, you hunt for aliens with Osama! Only the paranoid survive!"
- Andy Grove

Re:I hope they give us similar rights as with cred

[FooAtWFU]

Good lord. Does this mean I'll be spammed with Get your "free" terrorism assment report now!!! to complement the Credit Report ones? =b

Happy, happy, joy, joy

[Supp0rtLinux]

So now I can sit at work and tell the FBI and HS guys that all the co-workers and annoying sales people I don't like are suspected terrorists. Yaaaay!

Re:Easy to abuse.. but not a new list anyway.

[Ralph JH Nader]

Somehow, I think if you're on the list, the FBI will be a little more discrete than just return the list to the company and tell the company which people are suspected of being terrorsts. I would expect, instead, that the FBI would probably handle it in a more discrete way. They might do further investigation on suspected terrorists that are attending the event, and might even attend the event and follow them around. I'll leave it up to you to decide if the FBI's secrecy is for reasons of common sense or for evil, but I'd bet that's how they handle it.

let's start on it for them

[Triumph The Insult C]

INSERT into peepstowatch (fname,lname,occupation,nukearea) VALUES ('Darl','McBride','Scumbag','Mormonia');

Re:Can we say McCarthyism?

[dogfart]

He was a thug, who intimidated witnesses in private, selecting for public humiliation only those he knew he could break [bbc.co.uk]

In other words, truly an American icon.

Re:George Orwell

[Anonymous Coward]

"Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war."

Are you sure you didn't mean Winston Smith?

(I assume you're referring to the novel 1984 [newspeak.com], and not the former UK politician. I mean, Sir Churchill was quite a smart man and would probably be able to remember the time between the wars he served in and the wars he led :)

Re:A whole lotta cash

[Roger Keith Barrett]

The only growth industry in the U.S.A.!!

It's hard to outsource it overseas, too.

Re:Got it backwards, chief

[Blue Stone]

>It's not like Coca-co[l]a is gonna be getting dirt [on] you by calling up the feds.

You're right, Coca-Cola mostly deals with the CIA.

Intel

[BillsPetMonkey]

France and UK are reluctant to share intel

I didn't know Intel was France or the UK's to share

Re:Easy to abuse.. but not a new list anyway.

[saforrest]

Somehow, I think if you're on the list, the FBI will be a little more discrete than just return the list to the company and tell the company which people are suspected of being terrorsts.

As humorous as it is to think of the FBI being discrete (not continuous?):

s/discrete/discreet/g

Re:Do You Remember?

[Liselle]

Careful, that's how Ted Kaczynski got started.

I should be okay, I'm not much for huge dark sunglasses or hoodies. My vanity will keep me on the Light side.

"France and UK are reluctant to share intel."

[Anonymous Coward]

And here was me thinking that Intel was American.