What Does DHS Know About You?

Philosecurity ^ | 07 Sep 2009 | Sherri Davidoff

[BGHater]

Here’s a real copy of an American citizen’s DHS Travel Record retrieved from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol’s Automated Targeting System (ATS). This was obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request and sent in by an anonymous reader (thanks!)

The document reveals that the DHS is storing the reader’s:

• Credit card number and expiration (really)
• IP address used to make web travel reservations

• Hotel information and itinerary
• Full Name, birth date and passport number
• Full airline itinerary, including flight numbers and seat numbers
• Cruise ship itinerary
• Phone numbers, incl. business, home & cell
• Every frequent flyer and hotel number associated with the subject, even ones not used for the specific reservation

Again, here is the full record. The anonymous reader obtained his/her travel history using Edward Hasbrouck’s excellent guides. Check out his site for more info!

Thanks a ton for sending this in. If anybody else gets a copy of their ATS travel record, send it in! We’d love to see them and compare.

[Eagle Eye]

I think that all of that is available thru AMEX if you book thru them.

Maybe they don’t print your ISP number, but certainly everything else is just part of the invoice and itinerarry.

And it wouldn’t shock me at all that they would track ISP.

[SatinDoll]

The problem with this is that few of our citizens engage in terrorism yet DHS is sqaundering precious resources going after a broad base.

It is foreign nationals who are here, legally or illegally, and preponderantly MUSLIM males between the ages of 16 and 60 years old, who are involved with terrorism.

And I don’t give a damn if that come off as politically uncorrect. Too bad!

[Dianna]

I think that all of that is available thru AMEX if you book thru them.

So, are there laws in place where all this information is sent to DHS on everyone? Or do they have to ask for it? Get a search warrant?

[taxcontrol]

DHS IT group has got to be really hating me. With that much detail times the number trips I make .... man, I have to be costing them a fortune in storage.

[mysterio]

A lot of us were against the creation of another cabinet-level agency like DHS. We were told "if you're not doing anything wrong, what are you worried about?"

It's funny how those same folks are finally figuring it out. Ad the "patriot" act, too.

[mysterio]

Ad=”And.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

meanwhile all details regarding Barack’s trip to Pakistan remain under lock and key

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Not surprising. I wonder how many people worry about their “privacy and use a credit card for most purchases.

[Eagle Eye]

IDK if they need a warrant or not.

Not every search or inquiry requires a warrant.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,...”

[Freddd]

Doesn’t do much for those Muslims who change their names 2, 4, 7 times and more though, eh?