WTC security and emergency response newspaper article

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OM “TTmes Q-IQ oI Intelligence agencies could We di­ rected to infiltrate groups sug>ected Technology’s Role to Grow of aiding terrorists. The agencies could also, after a showing of preba- ble cause to judges, vastly ine^-ease In a New World ofSecurity monitoring of telephone and Internet communications, wire transfers of • money and tax records. i j. . By WILLIAM GLABERSON Terry F. Lenzner, chairm^of: In­ vestigative Group Intematiom^. a Security experts are describing a criminal sWd-lSSai drivii^ corporate security concern, said in­ new kind of country, where electron­ >s5peed. on a partlcuiar hlghway on a creased surveillance of the flow of ic identification might become the ^ven night. money might have prevented die at­ nortn, immigrants might be tracked Critics say electronic identifica- tacks by identifying people who, had far more closely and the airspace received money from Osama bin byerites like New York and Wash- Continued oh Page B5 Laden or other terrorists. ington-might be off limits to all ctvll- Airport security is likely to.^; just ianiaircraft. Continued From Page Bl ■ one area for debate. Armed SI9* 'mar­ Yesterday, Attorney General John shals, stronger cockpit doors. and Ashcroft outlined several proposals, new technology for luggage se'arc^tes . should strengthen our tion cards combined with . other are likely to be widely accepted.' laws to increase the ability of the measures could usher in an era of But some experts suggested ^ that Department of Justice and its com- surveillance and suspicion. the country could also adopt V Sys­ ponatit agencies to identify, prevent Civil libertarians see a major bat­ tem like Israel’s, where securj^LPeo- andpuaiish terrorism.” tle ahead because an anxious [Sublic ple often interrogate passS^ers Me/proposals Mr. Ashcroft de- may now seem too willing to trade about their travel histories oF^Ians scribed included measures that some freedoms for greater safety. and riffle through their baggi^y ', wouid ^ve law enforcement officials It is not clear, said Bruce Acker­ John T. Hom, ■vice presi<iffl£' "of expan&d electronic surveillance man, a law professor at Yale Univer­ IPSA International, a security con­ powet^i added search authority and sity, whether that acceptance .would sulting concern, said he favored de­ n^ -powers to seize assets of sus- continue if people perceived them­ claring the airspace over so^^jfms terrorists. selves as being searched ’ and off limits to commercial flints •'to ft Cdhgress has already begun to act watched frequently. Professor Ack­ give advance warning to citi^ when erman said some of the proposals there are problems in the like being discussed would threaten ano­ commandeered jets. * mehsures is expected that would nymity. Some security officials said Anjer- ii^Smrestrictipns on what will e^bc- “It is a profound affront Jo be icans had yet to focus on th^iritore tSve^sSe domestic spying. metered and measured,” he said. difficult questions most likely^^ “fol­ experts say the courts are “And that is, 1 think, the debate’of the low tighter airport security. Once unlikSy to imposemany restrictions future.” airports and airplanes are rifcre se­ on Cpzgrc^s’s security decisions. As Legal experts say the civil liber­ cure, they said, the country wUi have a resi®.theysay,the-country could tarians will find little sympathy in to consider extending many jg^ric- adopt security measures as strin- the courts. In World War II.' they tions to other public places lik^^adi- noted, the United States Supreme ums, train and bus stations, umyersi-. gent as its p^ple will tolerate politL Court approved the internment of ties, elementary schools, par^^ .^d ^gyorsupport financially. Japanese-Americans. reservoirs. ' . ^//Security experts say technology When the country is facing war or Partly because of limits of noj-ihal: hasipresented almokt ffimiUess possi- warlike threats, judges tend ttf slide security systems, some experK^s^d, ^^cluding national electrotic in the direction of security, even' if it computer technology will M^^ar- imbrication cards. limits freedoms, said David A. nessed to make the country s^Y- American could be given a Strauss, a law professor at the Uni­ Even if opposition makes anafibh- ;^^'ieard,’ so, as they go into an versity of Chicago. al identity card unrealistic, ewferts ’t^MtiOr anywhere, we know exaCt^ “If history suggests anything,” say the attacks will sharply iiS^^ise' 'ly Yrikj they are,” said Michael < Professor Strauss said, “it suggests adoption of security techflol6'^. ‘ . aerkamy. president of Kroll Inc, a the courts will allow the government Some companies already us^t^ds 'm®ffi^-consultant - to get away with a lot. Notiqaite that can identify users by'’fiK^dr- -hw®.” Mr; everything, but a lot more than you prints and limit access to ardi^ of a saii ‘'These cards in in- would expect.” 7?.? , building. ?.e .going to spread, and then In interviews, experts on security Computers record wheftb^'ldttd ^ gcteg to spread very rapidly else^ and terrorism outlined some choices. where the card is used, and, experts' Immigration could be more sharp­ said, the security industry is iri^^&- 5ach cards, with computer chips,' ly controlled, some suggested; with ing its reliance on such techntJK>gy. wouM .have detaUed information some people who are admitted being Norman Dorsen, former prsBiaent abotU^ose they were issued to and required to report periodically on of the American Civil Liberties wGiiWidentify them when -read by a their activities. Union, who is a law professorasO New compUier. The cards could he coordT Video surveillance, already^grow- York University, said thatiuwhile nat^ with fingerprints or, in a few ing, could be sharply increas'ed in there was a danger of overreas^hg, charactertstlcs, and be stores, offices and public places'and - restrictions on liberties had tosiong, and at public events. history. tov c, Law enforcement officials' could “In a wartime, national-enmtgen- expand the use of personality pro­ cy situation,” Professor Dorsen scud,, files. possibly including racial de­ “there are always restrictibBs. on scriptions, to identify potential ter­ individual liberties: not only intern­ rorists. They might use such profiles ment during the Second World; War as the basis to search people any­ but restrictions on travel, searehes where they felt terrorism was a pos- of people’s effects, access to certain sibility. ■ c.f buildings. The question now>,risi Is this a war?" •

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