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Secure Flight has not even been test flown yet, and already the Europeans and the ACLU are questioning it.
That's to be expected, of course, but even the airlines are still pondering their options, even though they only have until Tuesday to turn over their passenger databases to the TSA.
Mostly the airlines are worried about bad publicity and having to pay to integrate their databases with the governments.
It's no small IT task. There are approximately 2 million passenger trips a day domestically and people have to be cleared at the last minute if they purchase a ticket at the counter. How will this be resolved? Your guess is as good as mine at this point.
It also remains very unclear from the TSA's explanations of how the centralizing of the check will actually reduce the number of false positives.
The only way that could work is if 1) they get more biographic information from a potential traveler and 2) have a way to verify that information.
Leslie Miller of the AP has the latest.
Posted by Ryan Singel at November 19, 2004 06:49 PM
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