The ACLU points to the TSA's recently-issued “Market Research Announcement,” "in which the agency expresses a desire to expand its Pre-Check whitelist program by allowing private companies to carry out risk analysis of Americans that would determine whether they are 'trusted' enough to participate in the trusted traveler program." If this comes to pass, it would represent a big step toward transforming the TSA's Pre-Check whitelist into the sort of passenger profiling system proposed under the Bush Administration post-9/11.

  • KvH

    Just start a rumor they’re going to use gun registration databases and the NRA will shut it down.

    • DisGuest

       Brilliant.

    • dao_tao

      Who’s to say they aren’t planning to use those databases?  And anything else they want.  The TSA has no bounds, unless the Legislature man’s up (as if).

    • http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

      “If it is a legitimate database, the NRA has ways to shut the whole thing down.”

  • http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

    Modified 1984 slogan: “Big Data is watchlisting you.”

  • Happler

    How will they determine which private companies will be “trusted” enough to handle the info/work?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      The ones with the lowest bids that also happen to have made large contributions to whomever is doing the determining.

  • http://www.ninzo.com/ Bob Dinitto

    The NSA already knows everything about us so why not have them implement a green/yellow/red flag. TSA personnel drive to work so they’ll understand what that means, and we’ll just have to suffer like we always do because we’re the American public… I’m sorry you can’t go to Canada today because of what you said on Facebook.

  • http://twitter.com/andrewthesmart Andrew Smart

    artandscienceofdoingnothing.com

  • xyzpfl

    Imagine putting the Zuck in charge of this.  

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/UQBYQBWWLB745ZD6RJHS7ZI6OA D

    Is this a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, how could anything possibly get worse than having the TSA making decisions?

  • DewiMorgan

    Typo: should be “huge step backwards”