[IP] YET AGAIN -- A Good Name Dragged Down / Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: March 20, 2008 12:19:37 AM EDT
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Subject: A Good Name Dragged Down / Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist  
Watchlist


A Good Name Dragged Down
Consumers Get Tangled In Terrorist Watchlist

By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 19, 2008; D01

One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car,
only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury
Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had
to be "checked for tattoos," he said, to make sure he wasn't the
suspect.

An 18-year-old found he could not open an account to accept credit
card payments for his fledgling technology consulting business
because his name was similar to that of a Libyan official on the
watchlist.

A former U.S. Navy officer who served in the Persian Gulf and whose
father was killed in the Korean War when he was a child, found
himself locked out of his PayPal account because his name was similar
to one on the watchlist.

...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802971.html



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