Identity Resolution Daily

[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] A Red Carpet for the Good Customers with Identity Resolution

“How important is identity resolution to maintaining relationships with good customers? Ask Kmart. If they had had an identity resolution solution in place, then they likely wouldn’t have just been publicly pilloried in the Wall Street Journal. Oh, and they also lost a good customer and the friends and family members of this customer.”

[Editor’s note: Today’s identity resolution chatter is focused on the kinds of data gathered and stored by DHS. First up: charges by the Identity Projectabout the government’s alleged storing of personal information, followed by two links with responses from government officials.]

UnSecureFlight.com: Homeland Security’s Data Vacuum Cleaner In Action

“The results of an investigation by the Identity Project show that DHS is actively collecting information on what Americans read, with whom they associate, and the ethnicity of individual American travelers. DHS is also actively acquiring the travel records of Americans that document non-US travel, e.g., intra-European flights. Almost one hundred pages of travel records were turned-over by DHS to the Identity Project in response to Privacy Act requests.

Wired: U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read

“Privacy advocates obtained database records showing that the government routinely records the race of people pulled aside for extra screening as they enter the country, along with cursory answers given to U.S. border inspectors about their purpose in traveling. In one case, the records note Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore’s choice of reading material, and worry over the number of small flashlights he’d packed for the trip.”

Threat Level: Homeland Security Not Interested in Your Books, DHS Says

“‘I flatly reject the premise that we care at all about the latest Tom Clancy novel a traveler is reading,’ Knocke said. ‘But the fact does remain that CBP officials are going to be mindful of whether there is anything that suggests there could be possible violations of a law associated with a traveler or items in possession of a traveler as they make an admissibility decision about that traveler,’ Knocke said. ‘That is what they are charged by Congress to do.’”

CQ Homeland Security: Officials Defend Privacy Record of Intelligence Sharing Centers

“Officials involved with the development of fusion centers aimed at sharing intelligence with state and local authorities around the country said Wednesday that the centers pose no danger to privacy.”

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