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Old 08-19-2007, 11:37 AM   #1
BopeDolaNeone

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Default TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"
Are you a terrorist, or are you just scared of flying?

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...18245&from=rss
Specially trained security personnel” will be watching passengers for “micro-expressions” that will reveal treacherous agendas and insidious intentions at airports around the country. These agents, who may literally hold your fate in their hands have been given a lofty, Orwellian name: "Behavior Detection Officers."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20298840/site/newsweek/
Stanistani sends us to MSNBC for a dyspeptic Newsweek commentary on the TSA's latest attempt to make air travel safer: the rather ominously named "Behavior Detection Officers" now working in a dozen US airports, and slated to go nationwide in 2008. They are trained in the discipline of reading "micro-expressions." The editorialist calls that a pseudo-science, but in fact it's a well-understood skill that can be taught and learned. A cursory look at this TSA program might put one in mind of Orwell's "facecrime," and that's the road the Newsweek writer goes down.
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Old 08-19-2007, 01:42 PM   #2
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Sounds like something from some book/movie about a police-state.
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Old 08-19-2007, 02:13 PM   #3
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sounds like a scary country to be in...
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