These news are fresh out of the oven and I’m sure all of you have already heard of it, it’s simply outrageous. It turns out that everybody traveling into the United States has been subject (and of course this will continue on) to a special kind of profiling. Everyone coming into America by plane is being rated on how likely they are to be terrorists.
The Automated Targetting System is a score generated by a computer that rates you (well, your terrorists self), on how dangerous you are, based on… How you paid for your plane ticket, what country you are coming from, previous flights, and even the food you ate on the plane. Now how bad can it get, how can we be considered terrorists for eating a ceirtain kind of food on a plane?
This shouldn’t only worry people and Civil Liberties activists, it should worry the whole travel industry as a whole. After all “America’s share of the growing worldwide travel market dropped by 36 percent between 1992 and 2005″ [source] already, and it will keep declining. After all, who wants to travel to a country where they will be unfairly labeled as terrorists (by a computer algorithm) because of some silly things?
For further reading check out Yahoo!
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Adam Thompson Says:
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:51 am
Well, I don’t have any problems with profiling like that. If profiling can make it even a little more likely that they will catch a terrorist, then I’m happy for them to do it.
And Btw, I am a young male who normally travels with one or more other males (bro, Dad, etc.) so I often get singled out. I don’t mind it, though.
I will say this, though: In spite of all the security measures, our airlines are still not perfectly secure. They are much more secure, but still not perfectly secure. I don’t think they ever will be completely secure without going to completely unreasonable measures.
LennyP Says:
December 4th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
This will continue as long as the lemmings let fear over ride common sense.