<blockquote><strong>“We are not expanding the type of information we use.”</strong> If that were true, why would the TSA have published <a href="http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/10/10/tsa-proposes-arbitrarily-individualized-surveillance-based-searches/">formal notices in the Federal Register</a> of new systems of records and new uses for existing systems of records?  They don’t publish these legal notices just for fun. Either (a) the TSA has already been illegally collecting and/or using this data without proper notice, in violation of the Privacy Act (as <a href="http://papersplease.org/wp/2006/12/05/every-traveler-is-a-target/">DHS did for years</a> with the Automated Targeting System), (b) the TSA is doing what is says in the notices it is doing, and collecting and using new information in new ways, or (c) the TSA plans to do so in the future, and wants to be able to say, if someone later complains, “But we gave you fair notice that this was what we were going to do. If you wanted to object, you should have done so back in 2013 when we published that notice.”</blockquote>
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