Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Next time flying over there, try: - not booking in advance - paying cash for the ticket - refuse any food - ask for the middle seat in the last row Then you will be a real suspect ;-) Nathan "Douglas M. Sharp" wrote: > > Jim, > the European Community has recently agreed to pass all sorts of > information concerning air travellers to the US (if travelling with US > carriers, > probably to other destinations too), Credit Card numbers, choice of > on-board food, seat preferences, how the journey was booked > and from where, to name but a few. All this with the only condition > being that the US "promises" to delete the data after 3 months > (We Europeans believe anything :-) ). > Douglas > > Jim Hemenway schrieb: > > > Of some interest to traveling photographers, the Department of > > Homeland Security is about to decide on a company to build a "virtual > > border," a massive database and biometric network that will track > > visitors to the United States long before they get here. Cost will be > > up to $15 billion. > > > > http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/content_multi_image/content_multi_image_0006.xml > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige > Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit > Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 General photo site: http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html Seville photos: http://www.fotosevilla.com/index.html