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Airport Screening.
Topic Started: 7 Oct 2009, 06:11 AM (88 Views)
Demonic Tutor	7 Oct 2009, 06:11 AM Post #1
Sergeant Posts: 126 Group: Members Member #79 Joined: 23 July 2009	Airport ScreeningAirport Screening I dont se this as doing anything but delaying someone like me because Im naturally a Nervous and paranoid person.
	ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD


Ruum Taedor	7 Oct 2009, 02:51 PM Post #2
Keeper of Zippy Posts: 1,015 Group: Administrators Member #8 Joined: 25 October 2008	Interesting dilemma. There has to be a balance between security and privacy, and probably a definition of both. If you see a person smile, you know the person is happy. Is that an invasion of privacy? The song "The Gambler" talks about "you've got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them". How does one do that? I presume the gambler is "reading" people to try and determine, based on tell-tale visual cues and instinct, if a player is bluffing or not. Is that an invasion of privacy? The researchers in the story appear to be talking about reading a person intimately. I know I would be one of the nervous people.



High Priestess	9 Oct 2009, 05:24 PM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 3,311 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: 19 June 2008	Would someone kindly C&P or outline the content please? My PC won't open the page - it has sensed something dodgy attached and has aborted the operation!



Demonic Tutor	9 Oct 2009, 10:10 PM Post #4
Sergeant Posts: 126 Group: Members Member #79 Joined: 23 July 2009	You must have Kaspersky, Or some other Twitchy Techy anti virus/spam/the wid blew wrong, Protection on your comp. But here it is BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The days of being able to walk through airport security checkpoints while wearing shoes and a jacket could return if an experimental program proves successful, some Department of Homeland Security officials say. Project officials hope various sensors, such as this one that tracks eye movement, can help security screeners. The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST. Instead of focusing on whether you have hidden explosives or whether you're carrying a weapon, sensors and cameras located at security checkpoints would measure the natural signals coming from your body -- your heart rate, breathing, eye movement, body temperature and fidgeting. Those physiological signs, measured together, will indicate whether you might have the desire or intent to do harm, project manager Robert Burns said. "There's been a large field of research that ties your physical reactions to your mental state, your emotional state. We're looking for those signals that your body gives off naturally," Burns said. Burns said the technology will pick up cues that may not be observed by a human and help security personnel decide more quickly whether to send someone to secondary screening for questioning. FAST could be used wherever there are special security concerns, including stadiums, convention centers, federal buildings, mass transit centers and airports. Some critics question the viability of the project, saying it's pie-in-the-sky science fiction. Civil libertarians also charge it's an invasion of privacy. Researchers demonstrated FAST to reporters last month at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Boston.
	ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD


Dolphin	13 Oct 2009, 11:32 AM Post #5
Sergeant Posts: 238 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: 27 October 2008	High Priestess 9 Oct 2009, 05:24 PM Would someone kindly C&P or outline the content please? My PC won't open the page - it has sensed something dodgy attached and has aborted the operation! Hi Lo. You wanted some information on this subject well on todays BBC NEWS PAGE. as you may now know that in the U S they have devoloped a full body scanning machine which exrays the full body and is on trail at Manchester Airport. The report goes on to say that this scan will show female breast inplants peircings and will only be seen by one person at a remote area. I think that this proceedure will lead to a loss of passengers at the airports heres the link. http://news.bbc.co.uk Dolphin Attached to this post: _46537529__10_Airport_Scan.jpg (17.99 KB)



High Priestess	13 Oct 2009, 12:06 PM Post #6
Administrator Posts: 3,311 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: 19 June 2008	Thanks, Dolphin. They are discussing it on Loose Women although why I am suffering that show I do not know. The batteries on my Sky remote have died!



High Priestess	13 Oct 2009, 12:10 PM Post #7
Administrator Posts: 3,311 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: 19 June 2008	Whoops, thank you Demonic too for pasting in the article. I'm all for anything that cuts queues but this doesn't sound at all very well planned out. What about people with nervous disorders like agoraphobia? They are bound to be naturally agitated but with no desire to cause harm. Sounds like a bit of a disaster to me!



Cajunbug	8 Nov 2009, 05:20 AM Post #8
Moderator Posts: 798 Group: Moderators Member #7 Joined: 25 October 2008	The bottom line I think is to make sure that the passengers on the planes will be as safe as can be and nothing like 9/11 happens again. I have never been on a plane and have no plans to ever get on one but if I ever do then all the precausions that is being taken I guess will make it a tad better for me. I am not nervous when going under the search as I have been thru lots of them in my travels to Canada.
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High Priestess	17 Nov 2009, 12:27 AM Post #9
Administrator Posts: 3,311 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: 19 June 2008	But don't most pathological terrorists have an ability to feign calm? Maybe not, it's still open to the jury I suppose. But I suffer with agoraphobia and I get extremely nervous when flying so maybe I will have to carry some kind of doctor's note to authenticate my nervous disposition. The only time I am likely to commit murder on an aeroplane is when I get stuck next to a Jehovah's bliddy Witness for 18 hours



Dolphin	18 Nov 2009, 12:23 AM Post #10
Sergeant Posts: 238 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: 27 October 2008	The latest information on this matter that I ve heard recently that at Manchester Airport UK was in fact seeking legal advice as regards to people under the age of 18 and people in that age group are not part of the experimental trial As there are a lot of groups of Human Rights becoming involved in these issues and they in turn are seeking leagal advice also. Dolphin.



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