AMERICAN SECURITY LISTS
January 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN public interest group is seeking to have the US government release information it holds on 'suspicious' air passengers. Saying it has exhausted all administrative means, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is trying to secure an injunction against the Department
of Homeland Security, demanding the release of airline passenger 'watch-lists'.
Those lists hold the names of individual passengers the US government deems to be a threat to civil aviation or national security. EPIC says it has a right to the ...
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