The Terrorist Screening Database’s inclusion criteria are secret and skew toward Arab names

Evidence

How names are placed on this list is unclear because of the secrecy that shrouds these lists, but there is speculation that it includes more than six hundred thousand names and that there is an overpopulation of Arab names on it (Scahill and Devereaux 2014). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 55

Categorization

• QUESTION: The opacity of list-placement criteria is exactly the mechanism by which surveillance racializes without formal policy — worth probing how names actually get on the list.