Searching Passengers' Faces For Subtle Cues to Terror
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Looking for signs of "stress, fear and deception" among the hundreds of passengers shuffling past him at Orlando International Airport one day last month, security screener Edgar Medina immediately focused on four casually dressed men trying to catch a flight to Minneapolis.
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WASHINGTON -- It began as one of the Bush administration's most ambitious security efforts, a passenger screening program designed to use commercial records, terrorist watch-lists, and computer software to assess millions of travelers and target those who might pose a threat.
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.
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Airport security screeners will begin more thorough pat-downs of some passengers later this month in an effort to prevent terrorists from sneaking aboard commercial aircraft with explosives under their clothing.
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The Transportation Security Administration will compare the information against the names in its terrorist -screening database. By Larry Greenemeier.
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Looks to commercial surveillance tools
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As airport security tightens, checkpoint lines grow and tempers fray amid fears of devastating airborne attacks, more and more Britons are calling for the use of profiling to decide which travelers should be singled out as possible threats.
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WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration announced on Tuesday that it will order domestic airlines to turn over personal information about passengers to test a system that will compare their names to those on terrorist watch lists.    The system, called Secure Flight, replaces a previous plan that would have checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk level to each...
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LONDON - Europe is stepping up efforts to explore the use of eye scans and other biometric technology to screen airline passengers who volunteer for background security checks. The goal is to see whether airport security can be enhanced and congestion eased by encouraging frequent fliers to undergo pre-screening.
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Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets frisked?
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Department of Homeland Security implements data-mining system for passengers traveling to the U.S.
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First person: a frequent traveler through Israel's screening system tells what makes it so tough
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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Plus: Heathrow airport using 'see through clothes' scanner on passengers.
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Science & environment: Scientists develop technique which improves the success rate of computer face-recognition systems
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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The government will analyze millions of U.S. passenger records in a first step toward creating a computerized screening system to protect the airlines from terrorist attack.