The Liberal Avenger
The Transportation Security Administration will soon extend the Advanced Passenger Information System to cover domestic flights, instead of just international flights. Passengers will have to provide their full name, gender, date of birth, nationality, country of residence, and travel document type and number to the TSA.
The travel industry seems to be welcoming the replacement of the current system to one that is more centralized and uniform, but have concerns about the secrecy and lack of accountability that surround the rules and procedures that the TSA plans to use in screening passengers:
“On the surface, the new Secure Flight program no longer relies on commercial databases and appears to have reduced the number of names on the ‘No Fly’ list,” said Association of Corporate Travel Executives Director Susan Gurley. “It also seems that the responsibility for checking data is no longer abrogated to the airlines. While this is a step in the right direction, it prompts the industry to ask what was the origin of this new data, how is it stored, who has access to it, and how can it be corrected.”
(from Reddit)
