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Do you think everyone who buys a ticket for a commercial flight should have their background checked and be assigned a 'threat level'?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — Civil liberties groups are raising objections to a government plan for a new system that would check background information and assign a threat level to everyone who buys a ticket for a commercial flight. ACTIVISTS SEE the potential for unconstitutional invasions of privacy and for database mix-ups that could lead to innocent people being branded security risks. “This system threatens to create a permanent blacklisted underclass of Americans who cannot travel freely,” said Katie Corrigan, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. There also is concern that the government is developing the system without revealing how information will be gathered and how long it will be kept. The system, ordered by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks, will gather much more information on passengers than has been done previously. Delta Air Lines will try it out at three undisclosed airports beginning next month, and a comprehensive system could be in place by the end of the year.

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