Are You One of More Than 700,000 On U.S. "Watch-Lists"?

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Are You One of More Than 700,000 On U.S. "Watch-Lists"?</strong></p> <p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Craig Peterson: </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces= "true">You've heard about the no-fly list, right? Yeah. How about the terrorist and other watch lists? It's impossible to get your name off, even when there was no reason to be there in the first place?</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Well, I got some news.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The Department of Homeland security has been criticized for many things over the years. One of the things that they have been criticized quite a bit about is this watch list that they maintain. They have a watch list for no-fly. People get put on that watch list. It was initially intended to be, we know this guy's a terrorist, so we're going to put them on, right.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:00:45] It's not always the way it goes. It starts out almost innocuous, and before you know it, there are all kinds of people getting caught in this big, big net.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:00:55] That's what's been happening lately. But, unfortunately, it's going to worsen because the Department of Homeland security has decided to hire regular old companies to help develop this no-fly list and this terrorist watch list.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:01:14]Apparently, these companies will be looking through all kinds of public data, maybe some private data, social media to provide information for this new domestic terror watch list.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:01:28] So you look at that and say, okay, I can see that.</span></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">[00:01:32] We've talked before the problem, man, 20 years ago. I think I was talking about these data aggregators and the issues they create. They're taking public records; they're putting them all together. They're figuring out how it all