Some potential travelers balk in the face of cheap airplane tickets and cheap vacation packages because they are reluctant to deal with everything required to pass through airport security check points. Now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is saying that passengers could minimize their exposure during the screening process by disclosing more about themselves up front.
The use of detailed identity profiles would allow greater use of intelligence to disrupt potential terrorist actions against commercial airlines. Passenger identification would need to be much more comprehensive than what is required now to board a plane, currently the travelers name, date of birth and gender.
TSA is recommending a fee based voluntary traveler program where travelers would be given different, less intrusive level of screenings in exchange for disclosing more information about them. Travelers in such a program would face more identity based screening than physical screening.
TSA believes that body scanning technology may eventually make physical searches less necessary. It is now reviewing results of an automated body scanner being test in the Netherlands. The scanner displays a human form as a generic stick figure instead of showing a detailed anatomy resolving the privacy and modesty issue.
Future checkpoints may have multiple entrance lines with travelers being assigned to lines based on those who do not want to disclose more personal information and will thus face additional security, and those willing to provide information such that their passage through security checkpoints is expedited.
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