Behavioral Profiling at Airports

June 14th, 2010 admin

There’s a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George’s behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has declined to comment on his case because it is the subject of a federal lawsuit that was filed on George’s behalf in February by…


Originally posted on Schneier

 
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