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Congress to Test Air Screening Program

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the trust-in-uncle-sam dept.

unassimilatible writes "The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it will order airlines to turn over passengers' personal records in the next couple of months to test a computerized passenger screening program that could keep dangerous people off airlines, reports Yahoo/AP. The Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, would rank all air passengers according to the likelihood of their being terrorists. Suspected terrorists and violent criminals would be designated as red and forbidden to fly. Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening. The vast majority would be designated green and allowed through routine screening. But some say the project would violate privacy rights, while others are concerned it would cost the private sector too much money. The Air Transport Association, the trade group for major airlines, has come up with seven 'privacy principles' that it says the government should follow in implementing CAPPS II."

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  1. Raise questions by gid13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening."

    It just goes to show you should never rock the boat at an airport (or border crossing). :)

  2. Upgrading by pipingguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening

    "Am I incorrectly inferring that if I voluntarily submit to a full body cavity search I get to go straight through to my seat?"

    -Goatse guy

  3. Extra security screening. by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny
    Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening.

    Am I the only one who read that as, "rubber glove and a handful of vaseline"?

    /note to self, do not ask questions at the airport

    1. Re:Extra security screening. by haus · · Score: 5, Funny

      What?!?

      I didn't get any vaseline.

  4. Re:Discrimination by Apathetic1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are questioning the system! Orange flag warning! You will not question the system!

    Yeah... I can see where this is going...

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  5. Re:Discrimination by bellings · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're right. Timothy McVeigh was a Muslim. Not suprisingly, the IRA are also all Muslim. The Basque sepratists plagueing the Spanish are also Muslims. The Sarin gas attacks in Japan was also perpetrated by Muslims.

    There's no doubt Muslims are the source of all terror in the world.

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  6. Prepare for the confusion by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny

    when the phone # for the "Do Not Call" list is accidentally switched with the "Do Not Fly" list.

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