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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

TSA to Try Trusting Travelers?

Maybe:
Upset with being frisked and having a naked image taken of you at airports?
Increasingly, stringent air security screening methods such as these are under question. And they're not just being questioned by travelers upset at being groped. A consensus is building among the airline industry, business and leisure travel groups and even top government officials that something needs to change.

The alternative they're looking to: traveler verification systems akin to trusted traveler programs, in which people's backgrounds are checked beforehand, and they verify who they are when they get ready to board a flight.

The Transportation Security Administration and airlines already are testing a verification program for airline crews, which could end aggressive screening of them. It's time, airlines around the world say, that similar programs — and tiered programs — should be extended to trusted or known travelers.
I've got an idea - how about if you're not Middle Eastern and between the ages of 18-40 they quit messing with you?

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