Makes you worry and wonder though, what could be assertained (however mistakenly) via datamining? What happens when the mid-management like flunkies of various MI# decide that profiles can be built up from the scattered info that lives on the net/public archives.

I sometimes wonder whether it'd be worth it paying the $100 fee and applying for a visa from the US Embassy just to see if the Unistat computers have trolled through the Usenet and tagged me as a radical anti-American extremist hellbent on death and destruction.

Then again, if they've done that for me, Charlie would most likely have the same classification (and a bloody Commie besides) and he seems to be able to get in and out of the Untied Snakes without any problem.

Mmm - I know about Tariq Ramadan - who else has been banned from entering the US recently? There's this and this...