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This is the comment I wrote almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870933 I was not aware the US
by majke 12y ago
This is the comment I wrote almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6870933
I was not aware the USA has so many information about every single travel. According to this [1] they record everything.
- amtrack
- trains in the EU (including sit numbers)
- bus travel in the EU
- plane travel in the EU on a carrier that doesn't fly to the US
- hotel reservations
- pedestrian border crossing
Everything.
[1] http://hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbrouck-Cato-2APR2013.pdf http://hasbrouck.org/articles/Hasbrouck-Cato-2APR2013.pdf
- qnaal 12y agogotta fill those exabytes somehow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
- dan_bk 12y agoI've been told it's so that Jack Bauer from CTU Los Angeles can protect us. But you'll have to routinely let him brake all protocols so he can do his job - it's all for own good.
- shitlord 12y agoMan, this last season of 24 was awful IMO. The ending was just so incredibly anticlimactic. My favorite part about it was Belchek - what a badass. All he did was blow up stuff, shoot people, kidnap the president, and make Madonna references. They even let him have the last line of the season!
- morsch 12y agoThanks for the link. He presents solid evidence. The inspection notes from his border crossings on the final pages are particularly chilling.
- meraku 12y agoThanks for the link. That's a fascinating read. Being a Muslim man, I've been stopped and questioned by CBP numerous times when entering the US. It's interesting how they they always seem to ask the same types of questions, in a seemingly friendly manner, but always glancing at the screen in front of them and carefully cross checking everything being said. Would be interesting to get a copy of my own file and see all the notes they've written about the minutiae of my life gleaned during these inquisitions.