Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed plans to expand its tracking of all persons (both foreigners and citizens) who enter or leave the United States. Published in the Federal Register, the details of the DHS program include plans to create a terrorism risk profile of each individual entering or leaving the U.S. and retain that information for up to 40 years. From the Washington Post story on the subject:

U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country
by Ellen Nakashima and Spencer S. Hsu (via washingtonpost.com )

The federal government disclosed details yesterday of a border-security program to screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years.

The details, released in a notice published yesterday in the Federal Register, open a new window on the government's broad and often controversial data-collection effort directed at American and foreign travelers, which was implemented after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
   
While long known to scrutinize air travelers, the Department of Homeland Security is seeking to apply new technology to perform similar checks on people who enter or leave the country "by automobile or on foot," the notice said.

The department intends to use a program called the Automated Targeting System, originally designed to screen shipping cargo, to store and analyze the data.

Read the full story on WashingtonPost.com  

Update: ArsTechnica has additional (and more comprehensive) coverage of this story in its article "US Customs announces massive new database on trucks and travelers ."

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