Hubie
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There is little argument that airline management is inept at best and has been hurting the airlines more than helping them, but the loss of revenue by the airlines is real and is growing everyday because the traveling public, both vacationing families as well as the airlines bread-n-butter passengers the last minute first class pax or the business traveler is finding more and more reasons not to fly the friendly skies.
Mainly, because they are not so friendly anymore…
Now Delta, at the urging of our beloved federal guberment is going to start data mining on ALL passengers, this to include checking your credit and having a “Threat Assessment ID Number” assigned to ALL.
When will this end?
When will the people of this country turn off WWF or NASCAR and put down the remote long enough to demand that our government address the real threat!
Stop immigration from terrorist countries, countries that are believed to host terrorist and countries openly hostile to the USA. Round up ALL illegal aliens in this country and send them packing or jail them, which one I don’t care!
Start treating our enemies like they are our enemies and stop this PC BS that will be the end of us all!
The traveling American public is not the enemy; it is Middle Eastern males between the ages of 18 and 45!!!
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Federal aviation authorities and technology companies will soon begin
testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly
pull together every passenger's travel history and living
arrangements, plus a wealth of other personal and demographic
information.
The government's plan is to establish a computer network linking every
reservation system in the United States to private and government
databases. The network would use data-mining and predictive software
to profile passenger activity and intuit obscure clues about potential
threats, even before the scheduled day of flight.
It might find, for instance, by checking a passengers credit history that one man used a debit card to buy tickets for four other men who sit in separate parts of the same plane
-- four men who have shared addresses in the past. Or it might discern an array of unusual links and travel habits among passengers on different flights.
Those sorts of details -- along with many other far more subtle
patterns identified by computer programs -- would contribute to a
threat index or score for every passenger.
Passengers with higher
scores would be singled out for additional screening or possible detention by authorities.
As described by developers, the system would be an unobtrusive network enabling authorities to target potential threats far more effectively
while reducing lines at security checkpoints for most passengers.
Critics say it would be one of the largest monitoring systems ever
created by the government and a huge intrusion on privacy.
Although such a system would rely on existing software and technology,
it could be years before it is fully in place, given that enormous
amounts of data would need to be integrated and a structure would need
to be established for monitoring passenger profiles.
At least one carrier, Delta Air Lines, has been working with several
companies on a prototype. Northwest Airlines has acknowledged that it
is talking with other airlines about a similar screening system.
Federal authorities hope to test at least two prototypes in coming
months or possibly sooner, according to government and industry
sources familiar with the effort.
Mainly, because they are not so friendly anymore…
Now Delta, at the urging of our beloved federal guberment is going to start data mining on ALL passengers, this to include checking your credit and having a “Threat Assessment ID Number” assigned to ALL.
When will this end?
When will the people of this country turn off WWF or NASCAR and put down the remote long enough to demand that our government address the real threat!
Stop immigration from terrorist countries, countries that are believed to host terrorist and countries openly hostile to the USA. Round up ALL illegal aliens in this country and send them packing or jail them, which one I don’t care!
Start treating our enemies like they are our enemies and stop this PC BS that will be the end of us all!
The traveling American public is not the enemy; it is Middle Eastern males between the ages of 18 and 45!!!
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Federal aviation authorities and technology companies will soon begin
testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly
pull together every passenger's travel history and living
arrangements, plus a wealth of other personal and demographic
information.
The government's plan is to establish a computer network linking every
reservation system in the United States to private and government
databases. The network would use data-mining and predictive software
to profile passenger activity and intuit obscure clues about potential
threats, even before the scheduled day of flight.
It might find, for instance, by checking a passengers credit history that one man used a debit card to buy tickets for four other men who sit in separate parts of the same plane
-- four men who have shared addresses in the past. Or it might discern an array of unusual links and travel habits among passengers on different flights.
Those sorts of details -- along with many other far more subtle
patterns identified by computer programs -- would contribute to a
threat index or score for every passenger.
Passengers with higher
scores would be singled out for additional screening or possible detention by authorities.
As described by developers, the system would be an unobtrusive network enabling authorities to target potential threats far more effectively
while reducing lines at security checkpoints for most passengers.
Critics say it would be one of the largest monitoring systems ever
created by the government and a huge intrusion on privacy.
Although such a system would rely on existing software and technology,
it could be years before it is fully in place, given that enormous
amounts of data would need to be integrated and a structure would need
to be established for monitoring passenger profiles.
At least one carrier, Delta Air Lines, has been working with several
companies on a prototype. Northwest Airlines has acknowledged that it
is talking with other airlines about a similar screening system.
Federal authorities hope to test at least two prototypes in coming
months or possibly sooner, according to government and industry
sources familiar with the effort.
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