HOWTO Request your Homeland Security traveler file

Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 26, 2007 7:44 AM | permalink

The Department of Homeland Security has compiled a huge database of travelers -- including, perhaps, you. With these simple forms, you can request a copy of your own file -- and it's free (except for the photocopying charge).

The Department of Homeland Security already knows everything about your travel. Now, for the first time, The Identity Project makes it easy for you to request the unclassified parts of the dossier that the DHS has complied on you...
Are you prepared to find out for yourself the outrageous amount of personal information Homeland Security has been vacuuming-up on you?

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#1 posted by DragonPhyre , September 26, 2007 8:39 AM

I have never flown before. I will see if there is any info on me in there...

when the site is up, that is.

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#2 posted by Lizzle

, September 26, 2007 8:42 AM

I will not be filling out these forms in case there's someone at the TSA making a special list of people requesting their data for later airport tazing.

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#3 posted by Freddie Freelance

, September 26, 2007 8:59 AM

Yeah, unsecureflight.com is either down or swamped with requests.

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#4 posted by jessicareloaded

, September 26, 2007 9:05 AM

Is the site down, or is it just me?

I really want to see what's in my file since I've been pulled over for the special screening so many times. I'm a flight attendant now, and don't get any crap from TSA now, but while I was interviewing with airlines I got flagged constantly. I was continually committing the sins of buying one-way tickets, buying tickets at the last minute, and flying standby. (It seems so very cruel to have to go through the extra screening and then be bumped off the flight.)

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#5 posted by Thorzdad

, September 26, 2007 10:04 AM

I recall, back in the day right after FOIA was enacted, you could request your data from the FBI. The catch was that, if they didn't have a file on you, they would start a file on you. I'm betting something similar will happen with this, too.

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#6 posted by Zan

, September 26, 2007 2:06 PM

I would request my info, but I really don't want to be SSSS'd for the rest of my life.

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#7 posted by proto , September 26, 2007 2:31 PM

Citizen,

Thank you for requesting a copy of your Traveler File from the Department of Homeland Security.

Now that we have flagged your entry in our database, we see that your name has not been added to 'The List'. We find this, in and of itself, suspicious.

Due to heightend security concerns, we will be adding your name to 'The List', along with all the personal information you have so thoughtfully provided on your request forms.

Thank you for stepping up and volunteering to participate in our new Closer Look program.

Sincerely
DHS

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#8 posted by obra , September 7, 2008 2:08 PM

I submitted my request the day this post went up. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I got 96 pages of printout from CBP.

10 pages or so of entry/exit records from CBP and 86 pages of printouts of my PNR records from various international airline flights. Most of them were AA. A few were Northwest and I think I saw one United flight in the pack.

The blacked out content was minimal and appears to be the names and addresses of CBP officers and traveling companions.

"A- ; slow but diligent. Would request again"