...if the TSA is watching everyone?
The Quiet Skies program was revealed last week, and apparently anything "out of the ordinary" (sleeping on a flight? really?) is tracked...and this has come into play for travelers not currently on a watch list. (ETA: The Globe article that I linked to may be paywalled; here's an NPR report that may be easier to access)
In a way I see the concern about domestic terrorists, but most behaviors listed in the article seem so normal (who hasn't changed direction or stopped multiple times in a gate area, or scoped out the boarding area from the concourse) as to be useless for any real surveillance. How can they tell if someone looking in a store window is "monitoring surveillance teams"? (or observing people who are observing the teams...)
And where are they getting the information used in deciding who to follow? The bit about "possibly affiliated with a person on a watch list" is suspect to me, given that the no-fly list has generated false positives before and the flaw in any watch list is who is interpreting this data and how.
The Quiet Skies program was revealed last week, and apparently anything "out of the ordinary" (sleeping on a flight? really?) is tracked...and this has come into play for travelers not currently on a watch list. (ETA: The Globe article that I linked to may be paywalled; here's an NPR report that may be easier to access)
In a way I see the concern about domestic terrorists, but most behaviors listed in the article seem so normal (who hasn't changed direction or stopped multiple times in a gate area, or scoped out the boarding area from the concourse) as to be useless for any real surveillance. How can they tell if someone looking in a store window is "monitoring surveillance teams"? (or observing people who are observing the teams...)
And where are they getting the information used in deciding who to follow? The bit about "possibly affiliated with a person on a watch list" is suspect to me, given that the no-fly list has generated false positives before and the flaw in any watch list is who is interpreting this data and how.
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