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Arthur D. Hlavaty ([personal profile] supergee) wrote2012-05-14 11:07 am
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Airport Profiling

Bruce Schneier knows why it doesn't work.
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[personal profile] 0jack 2012-05-14 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The system remains broken. :p CNN featured a story this morning in which a young family was removed from a Jet Blue flight because their frickin' adorable 18-month-old daughter was flagged as a potential terrorist. Given that it's now claimed to be a computer error, it seems to me that if mom hadn't been in hijab and dad hadn't been brown-skinned, they wouldn't have been hauled off the plane before someone worked out that it wasn't correct. For bonus points, mom and dad were born and raised in NJ.
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[personal profile] supergee 2012-05-14 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Your faith in their common sense may be excessive.
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[personal profile] 0jack 2012-05-14 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
More my faith in their inability to classify people beyond brown(danger!) and not-brown(friendly!).
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