Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions

nldavepc writes "There has been a rather scary development in airport security. Airport profilers are watching people's facial expressions for clues of terrorist intent. According to the article,"Travelers at Sea-Tac and dozens of other major airports across America are being scrutinized by teams of TSA behavior-detection officers specially trained to discern the subtlest suspicious behaviors.""

Comments

Re:What is a terrorist facial expression?

[dintlu]

Give me a break.

The article describes the methods these officers will be using to control for normal levels of travel anxiety. And "Grilling" is hardly an appropriate term for the process used to identify people for secondary screening. Questions such as "How are you today?" and "Are all these bags yours" are completely innocuous.

I'm glad the TSA has graduated from racial profiling to emotional profiling.

Re:Could you speak up?

[eebra82]

Besides. I feel safe. You know you "feel" safe at the expense of a corrupted administration that has taken our country a lot closer to commie China, right?

Re: Protests in the US

[Nexus7]

Oh, there have been protests. A lot of them over nonsense such as "pro-life", etc. There have been significant ones such as the anti-war marches, the immigrants ones last year, and the 1M man march. The comments about gun owners merely polishing their guns and not doing anything, however, still hold. The gun-owners, if they can be said to be represented by the vehemently-pro-gun right wing radio, universally mocked these protests and protesters. Also, unlike in France, the so-called news here minimized or outright ignored these protests.