I've been having real problems with Blogger again and I'm too busy to spend any time on it at the moment. I haven't even been able to get onto the system for some days. Hence the lack of postings. Also can't seem to get it to accept links, so I'll just point you at one:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9723490.htm

Mercury News are reporting that the US government will order airlines to hand over passenger data for testing the new terrorist screening system "Secure Flight", the sucessor to the now defunct CAPPS II.