problem with the news
Oct. 24th, 2005 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslAny Americans here who visited Brazil since 2004? If so, were you fingerprinted?
The latest news on this is almost 2 years old. This is a serious information problem. It shouldn't be hard to ask an American who traveled to Brazil recently, and yet we don't know how to do this.
Why don't we have anything more recent? Because neither "Americans no longer fingerprinted in Brazil" nor "Americans still fingerprinted in Brazil" makes a good headline. With current technology, this is a very hard information retrieval problem.
The latest news on this is almost 2 years old. This is a serious information problem. It shouldn't be hard to ask an American who traveled to Brazil recently, and yet we don't know how to do this.
Why don't we have anything more recent? Because neither "Americans no longer fingerprinted in Brazil" nor "Americans still fingerprinted in Brazil" makes a good headline. With current technology, this is a very hard information retrieval problem.