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Wall Street company Clear offers a fast way around the long TSA lines at a number of large USA airports. Here's an article about it, https://www.fastcompany.com/90245393/clear-new-york-startup-speed-through-lines-at-airport-or-stadium
What's the pitch? You can sign up right at the airport in five minutes for $179 a year. If you are about to miss your flight because the TSA lines are an hour long, this might look like a trip saver. Of course there is a catch, they use biometric data: fingerprints, irises, faces... and a promise that your data is safe with them.
Clear's only domestic competition at airports is the Transportation Security Administration's service TSA PreCheck, which has more members (7 million), and is much cheaper ($85 for five years) and more widely available (200-plus airports). Another program, Global Entry, is run by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service to expedite passage of international travelers entering the United States. PreCheck and Global Entry both collect fingerprints from participating travelers but unlike Clear do not capture iris or facial scans. All three of the services—PreCheck, Global Entry, and Clear—worked with the Department of Homeland Security to develop tools that could predict the threat level of individual travelers, the "known traveler" model.
Clear is currently experimenting with an adaptation of this model that could be deployed at a vast number of non-airport venues. "In travel, prescreening programs like PreCheck and Global Entry create known travelers," Clear said in a statement to Fast Company. "As a qualified anti-terrorism technology, Clear believes creating known fan programs can continue to make experiences safer and easier." A former Clear executive put it this way: "If you wanted to do predictive analytics to show who at a stadium is more likely to bring a gun in, they have the ability to do that."
Here's the company pitch if anyone is interested : https://www.clearme.com/how-it-works/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 13 2019, @05:04AM (4 children)
Or, how about we just abolish the TSA, or otherwise 'repeal and replace' it with something that doesn't violate the Constitution and people's rights? If it makes the cowards in our country feel better, we could even pay anti-terrorism "experts" to stand around looking for suspicious people in airports. Anything but this abomination!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 13 2019, @06:04AM (3 children)
Israel has a better system. They just profile people. It works. If you have an Arabic name, you can expect more attention, and if you have Jewish name, you may reasonably expect less attention. If you wear clothing that could easily hide a suicide vest, you can expect more attention, and if you wear a skimpy, revealing outfit, you might expect a different type of attention (but only if you are physically attractive to members of the opposite sex). If you approach the plane shouting "alla akhbar" you can expect a lot of attention, while the guy murmuring prayers in Yiddish might warrant some eyerolls (he's afraid of flying, LOL).
Profiling works. When looking for a terrorist, you look for people who look like terrorists, rather than groping a bunch of pre-schoolers and their mothers, AND grandmothers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday October 13 2019, @06:16AM
If you approach the plane shouting "alla akhbar" you can expect a lot of attention, while the guy murmuring prayers in Yiddish might warrant some eyerolls (he's afraid of flying, LOL).
Any person of any color, of any religion, murmuring prayers in any language in any social setting feels like threat to me. And the Israeli should feel the same: one of their prime ministers was assassinated by one of their kind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @02:30PM (1 child)
Very easy to do when your governmental system allows for classism.
There are more blacks in jail so it's OK to pull people over for driving while black, right?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 14 2019, @02:39PM
Perhaps you should discuss that with the people who support our modern-day form of slavery. https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=36833¬e=&title=California+Law+Bans+For-profit%2C+Private+Prisons%2C+Immigration+Detention+Centers [soylentnews.org] Tell your representatives that you want to see all prison-for-profit outlawed.