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Date: August 26, 2007 3:12:12 PM PDT
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Subject: U.S. Won't Tell Britons Why They're Banned From Travelling
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=477814&in_page_id=1770
*U.S. Won't Tell Britons Why They're Banned From Travelling To
America*
By JASON LEWIS
Last updated at 23:12 p.m. on 25th August 2007
British holidaymakers and businessmen banned from travelling to
America under
anti-terror laws will no longer have any right to know why they
have been turned
away.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, set up following the
September 11
attacks, last week applied for a blanket ban on disclosing the
information it
holds on Britons and other E.U. citizens.
Last month, Britain agreed to send the secretive U.S. department
all details of
U.K. passengers before they fly to America.
The agency was given full access to huge amounts of information on
individual
passengers, including details of their credit cards, home
addresses, e-mail
addresses, frequent-flier records, and even requests for special
meals.
And, despite a huge privacy row in the European Parliament, it was
also given
permission to keep the airlines' lists of passengers' names for at
least eight years.
The Department of Homeland Security last week said it intended to
make this
information available for 'routine use' by the intelligence
community 'to protect
the United States from terrorist threats' and to tackle cases of
identity theft.
But it said it was also applying for a complete ban on disclosing
the information
it holds on individuals and then uses to turn passengers away.
Last week, it published a "notice of proposed rulemaking" for an
exception from
the U.S. Privacy Act, which allows individuals to check records the
American
government holds on them.
The law is supposed to allow anyone to check files for mistakes but
the new
exception rule is being brought in on the grounds of national
security and law
enforcement.
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