Ascent Technology's "Smart Airport" may be your privacy's "Smart Bomb".
Dublin Airport is using software developed by Ascent Technology of Cambridge, MA. Recently, Ascent Technology was caught up in the illegal transfer of personal data on passengers (including medical information) from Airlines to Homeland Security.
Deep within the heart of Cambridge, MA is a small company working as a contractor for the neo-fascist American Homeland Security. This same company is involved in the management of Dublin Airport via an artificially intelligent system named "SmartAirport."
What safeguards have been put in place to prevent Ascent from becoming a conduit to information transfer to the neo-fascist American Homeland Security Department? If you wouldn't want your personal information shared with Germany's Gestapo, why would you want it shared with Bush's Gestapo?
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