And the TSA and DHS have consistently asserted authority and exercised power — legally or not — to blacklist and surveil travelers without needing any suspicion of criminality.
> redacted ate sandwich
> redacted and UNK1 purchased head phones
> redacted and UNK1 used their phones to scroll through news
> UNK1 opened settings app and top of phone showed 'redacted iPhone'
All that work being done manually is one thing -- it would be limited to high profile targets. But with AI, its concerning that this kind of detailed transcript could be scaled to mass surveillance.
axus•1h ago
Credit where credit is due!
josefritzishere•1h ago
KPGv2•1h ago
You're right, but not for the reason you think. TSA is part of DHS, so it's a tautology.
ls612•47m ago
bilbo0s•29m ago
US travel blacklists are now maintained by the TSC at FBI.
What the Trump admin did was political sleight of hand. Calculated specifically to please people who, because we make it intentionally complex, are unable to understand the full spectrum of our military, law enforcement, and intelligence infrastructure. Politically speaking, these kinds of people could be made to believe we got rid of travel blacklists. When in actuality, the lists today are even longer.
Slightly off topic, but this is one of the primary reasons independents will never win an election by the way. The liberals and conservatives can always say, "you're lying", and it would take longer than the average voter is willing to pay attention for an independent explain why they're not lying.
coldtea•25m ago
Depends on their respective impact.
macawfish•1h ago
She gets credit for being complicit in a violent overthrow of the Democratic government of the united States.
Go read the latest national security memo and ask yourself, if they carry that through as written will you feel safe to show up at the airport?
bilbo0s•38m ago
macawfish•16m ago
The violent overthrow stuff is reference to current attempts to send the US military into blue states against court orders, to drum up the insurrection act, to the violent arrests of children in their underwear as a publicity stunt, to ICE officers / bounty hunters ramming cars into pedestrians without recourse, to the slamming of non-violent bystanders into the ground, arresting elected officials violently for no reason, to the psychological violence of the rhetoric being broadcast ("Russ Vought is the reaper") along with Stephen Miller's rhetoric in general but specifically about how many 10s of millions of people don't belong in this country in his mind. Brown people is who he's talking about. They want ethnic cleansing and are openly blatant about it if you open your ears to exactly what they're saying. Sure they'll also deny it at other times, opportunistically, but if you listen to what they're saying in full, not just to denials, they're spelling it out.
Go listen to the leaked Russ Vought interview about his strategy and tell me that's not incredibly violent. Listen to Stephen Miller's rhetoric.
These guys are itching to arrest elected officials and political critics, and to go as far as they can to hurt and punish people who push back against the state that they're hell bent on forcing into existence.
If you haven't seen these things I urge you to pay attention.
notanastronaut•37m ago
More like we're lucky that in blind fury they lashed out and actually crumbled something that was terrible to begin with. A broken clock and all that.
bilbo0s•7m ago
You do realize, do you not, that the US travel blacklist is now maintained by TSC instead of being a major feature of TSA right?
I mean you don't actually believe we would get rid of that function do you?