Saturday, July 3, 2010

Screening Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT)

Cal Lightman is a fictional character but TSA is using techniques with even less scientific scrutiny.

"No scientific evidence exists to support the detection or inference of future behaviour, including intent," declares a 2008 report prepared by the JASON defence advisory group. And the TSA had no business deploying SPOT across the nation's airports "without first validating the scientific basis for identifying suspicious passengers in an airport environment", stated a two-year review of the programme released on 20 May by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the US Congress.


Airport security: Intent to deceive? : Nature News

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