Wednesday, April 11, 2007

And Speaking of Scary Government Lists...

So there's lists for people who go to peace marches, and it also appears there are also lists for people who have names that might be similar to those of people who maybe, they think, could be a terrorist, or someone who knows a terrorist. This is just silly.

But it reminds me of the lists that were put together to purge the Florida voter rolls, they left it open to tons of false positives. Your name didn't even have to match it just had to be similar to a name on the list to make you a target.

Tom Kubbany is neither a terrorist nor a drug trafficker, has average credit and has owned homes in the past, so the Northern California mental-health worker was baffled when his mortgage broker said lenders were not interested in him. Reviewing his loan file, he discovered something shocking. At the top of his credit report was an OFAC alert provided by credit bureau TransUnion that showed that his middle name, Hassan, is an alias for Ali Saddam Hussein, purportedly a "son of Saddam Hussein."

The record is not clear on whether Ali Saddam Hussein was a Hussein offspring, but the OFAC list stated he was born in 1980 or 1983. Kubbany was born in Detroit in 1949.



Here is the publicly downloadable list of bad names. It's currently 250 pages long!

And here's another article on this list from the Consumerist as well.

1 comment:

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