CDC Wants to Track Travelers 299
gearspring writes "According to Government Health IT the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants your email address, your mobile phone number, names of your traveling companions, your name, your address, and your emergency contacts name, address, and phone number. This information would be gathered by airlines, travel agents, and online reservation systems for all travelers. Their goal is to protect us in the event of a pandemic. The SARS crisis showed them the difficulty of notifying people that they may have been exposed to a disease. It is a noble goal, but couldn't they do this anonymously?"
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Anonymously? What, will they use a war-dialer to randomly notify people that someone somewhere was likely exposed to a new strain of bird flu? Maybe a really big phone tree?
Anonymous Notification? (Score:5, Funny)
It just begs the question, doesn't it?
For the greater good (Score:5, Funny)
Cutting paper (Score:3, Funny)
Whaaa? (Score:5, Funny)
Cool! And what about here goal?
Re:Anonymously? How? (Score:2, Funny)
OK so far...
In response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have proposed new federal regulations to electronically track more than 600 million U.S. airline passengers a year traveling on more than 7 million flights through 67 hub airports.
Ummm... anyone care to do the geometric expansion on this one? CDC is gonna need one hell of a call center. Perhaps India could handle it. (Not a company in India. INDIA.)
CDC? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it all makes perfect sense!
Re:CDC? (Score:3, Funny)
Is Slashdot more interested in games than hacking now? What's the world coming to?
Re:Unfortunately.... (Score:5, Funny)
every city that has alley cats . We got ourselves a recipe for a bad situation
We'll be safe. When (if ever) do you think was the last time a slashdotter got any pussy?
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
well surely its going to be a lot easier if an area suddenly becomes hot to either stop the flights from leaving, or quarantine them when they arrive..?
If the point is that you register at the airport with where you are going (or been), then when you have already come back and it turns out that the population at that location is dropping like flies (or birds :) then they can send the black helicopters to spray your house.
Re:CDC (Score:1, Funny)
to answer the last question in the summary.. (Score:1, Funny)
Sinc.,
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