NP? anti-TIPS

[Doug Millison]

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,54492,00.html
[,,,] The American Civil Liberties Union has launched
a website for people to protest the Bush
administration's citizen informant program, which
would enlist civilians nationwide to report suspicious
behavior by their fellow Americans. 

The ACLU charges that the Terrorist Information and
Prevention System (TIPS), which is expected to launch
this fall, is a massive invasion of privacy. 
 

"You've got untrained nonprofessionals coming up with
what they believe is suspicious activity," said Rachel
King, legislative counsel for the ACLU. "We're not
against tip lines; we're against relying on untrained
civilians to spy." 

The ACLU worries that the system will target certain
religious and ethnic minorities, such as dark-skinned
Muslims, and that a database of "suspicious" people
will be assembled without giving those included in it
a chance to prove their innocence. [...] 


http://www.aclu.org/tips/


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