Gilbert believes that he was singled out because he is “a 6-foot-tall, bespectacled, slightly graying, 52-year-old, 230-pound African American male with a close hair cut.” In other words, that he was the target of racial profiling.
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Logan expands behavior detection program, three online hotel finders go battle it out, in changed GDS relationship Travelport can sell Economy Plus seats
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Ned Levi examines TSA’s new random hand swabbing program to detect explosive residue on airplane passengers and finds that it’s unlikely to work, despite claims of security experts, mostly because they’ve focused on the equipment, and not the overall security program of which they are a part.
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Southers withdraws from TSA nomination to head agency, higher airline security fees to probably passes this session, IBM automates profiling of passengers
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I hesitated before writing this post, since it was only an isolated incident, as far as I know. But it was nonetheless disturbing.
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You’ve probably heard about the Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act of 2008, a proposed new law that would prevent customs agents from confiscating your laptop computer at the border. But what does the law actually say? Ned Levi takes a look at the law and makes some troubling discoveries.
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