Comments on: 6-year old girl on no-fly list of suspected terrorists http://datavaluetalk.com/data-governance/6-year-girl-on-no-fly-list-of-suspected-terrorists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=6-year-girl-on-no-fly-list-of-suspected-terrorists Customer data is a valuable asset. Why not treat it that way? Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ron http://datavaluetalk.com/data-governance/6-year-girl-on-no-fly-list-of-suspected-terrorists/#comment-1524 Ron Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:08:36 +0000 http://datavaluetalk.com/?p=1447#comment-1524 From my experience I must say that the quality of the sanctions lists (the EU list as well as the OFAC list or the Homeland security no-fly list) is very poor. In lots of cases only a name is provided. This could easily lead to a hit in case of high frequent names, while adding a date of birth would avoid these mis-matches. Only people with the same name and a more or less equal date of birth would then result in a hit. Alyssa Thomas would never have been identified as a terrorist if decisions would have been made based on correct information. From my experience I must say that the quality of the sanctions lists (the EU list as well as the OFAC list or the Homeland security no-fly list) is very poor. In lots of cases only a name is provided. This could easily lead to a hit in case of high frequent names, while adding a date of birth would avoid these mis-matches. Only people with the same name and a more or less equal date of birth would then result in a hit.

Alyssa Thomas would never have been identified as a terrorist if decisions would have been made based on correct information.

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