What's next: A credit report in order to get an airline ticket?
Currently, the Fair Credit Reporting act appears to prevent that from happening, but this article hints that changes could be on the way.
There are provisions for allowing the FBI to get credit reports when "specific and articulable facts" give reason to believe that a specific person is a foreign spy or terrorist, but complete credit reports are not, as of yet, available for random screening of airline passengers.
Section 608 of the FCRA might be just enough, however, to determine some important, non-financial things. It allows the release of "header" information that could help a profiling system determine whether the person is rooted in the community:
A consumer reporting agency may furnish identifying information respecting any consumer, limited to his name, address, former addresses, places of employment, or former places of employment, to a governmental agency.
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