It wasn’t clear from the report I read yesterday what Accenture was being given a contract to do.
Thanks to EPIC:
Accenture Awarded US-VISIT Contract
A U.S. corporation based in Bermuda will receive more than $10 billion from the Department of Homeland Security to build US-VISIT, a massive government surveillance system that tracks visitors to, within, and from the United States. In February, EPIC urged (pdf) the agency to define how Privacy Act obligations affect the program, to consider the significance of international privacy standards in the collection and use of personal information on non-U.S. citizens, and to prohibit the expansion of US-VISIT uses beyond the program’s defined mission. These issues remain unresolved. For more information about the program, see EPIC’s US-VISIT Page. (June 1)