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Registered Traveler Program Open For Business

Posted by timothy on from the look-shiny-things dept.

storem writes "Enrollment into TSA's Registered Traveler program started yesterday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Frequent flyers are given the opportunity to sign up for a fast-track system using biometrics to identify themselves. It seems this is pretty much the same system tested in Europe in the s-Travel program. There frequent flyers carried their biometric identifiers (fingerprint & iris) with them between airports on a smart card (privacy reasons)."

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  1. So ID is.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    on a card yes?

    What happens if the card gets stolen? Do they test the card and the eyes/finger print to comfirm it's them? I can think of so many ways to abuse this if they don't..

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