Now Fliers Can Keep Their Shoes On -- If They Let Big Brother Inspect Their Big Data
Now Fliers Can Keep Their Shoes On -- If They Let Big Brother Inspect Their Big Data
Now all U.S. citizens can apply to speed through airport screening -- if they don't mind contractors potentially mining their social media posts for signs of threatening behavior.
On Friday, the Transportation Security Administration opened up to the entire American public a voluntary program once reserved for frequent fliers that lets travelers walk, with their shoes and belts on, to express checkpoint lines. Laptops and TSA-size compliant liquids and gels can stay in place too. Body scans are still required.
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"TSA Pre✓ is one expedited aviation screening initiative" and the agency is researching "a further expansion of expedited physical screening" to understand how "pre-screening processes conducted by non-governmental entities ('third parties') can enhance aviation security by placing more focus on pre-screening individuals," states a January call for industry demonstrations.
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Under the plan, a company would aggregate biographic and biometric “non-governmental data elements to generate an assessment of the risk to the aviation transportation system that may be posed by a specific individual,” the notice states. The vendor would have to provide a “reliable method that effectively identifies known travelers, based on a sound analysis and the application of an algorithm that produces dependable results.”
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http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2013/07/fliers-can-keep-shoes-exchange-letting-big-brother-inspect-their-big-data/67142/
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To me this sounds like a 
Moment. Surrender all your "Consumer Data" for $85- and you get to travel without harrassment. Paying to give away all your Privacy or get subjected to radiation and a "grope down?" 
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"Pre✓” enrollment is expected to cost $85 -- and the loss of privacy. TSA is weighing a contract that would hire private screeners to parse an applicant’s consumer data, such Web browsing histories, for signs of danger before admission into express inspection programs.
"TSA Pre✓ is one expedited aviation screening initiative" and the agency is researching "a further expansion of expedited physical screening" to understand how "pre-screening processes conducted by non-governmental entities ('third parties') can enhance aviation security by placing more focus on pre-screening individuals," states a January call for industry demonstrations.
Agency officials said in April that they aimed to finish evaluating the concept by the end of this year.
Under the plan, a company would aggregate biographic and biometric “non-governmental data elements to generate an assessment of the risk to the aviation transportation system that may be posed by a specific individual,” the notice states. The vendor would have to provide a “reliable method that effectively identifies known travelers, based on a sound analysis and the application of an algorithm that produces dependable results.”
