Recent news reports have revealed that Americans that travel internationally are being rated under the Automated Targeting System which uses computer-generated scores to rate the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals. The New York Times details that scores "are assigned to people entering and leaving the United States after computers assess their travel records, including where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and what kind of meal they ordered." This rating which was originally thought to have only applied to cargo will be held for forty years.