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Congress to Test Air Screening Program
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."
Would anything like this be possiable today if it wasn't for the Patriot Act because that does allow the police to have new priviliges and it does limit somethings like Freedom of speec ...
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Unless it's changed recently, I'm confused as to why in the United States you can walk with the person(s) who is flying right up to the gate.
Here in Canada, anyway, you can't get past security, well before the gates. It's kinda sad because you can only wait with so long before they should be heading in through security and such. Also, when picking up, you're out where the baggage pick-up is.
Seems like a small thing but I think it's a rather cheap +1 to security.
What's that knocking? ^H^H^H^H NO CARRIER
What I don't get is why they hit backspace four times before pulling the plug on you?