Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
See, I'm of more of a mixed mind about the whole thing. Many TSA critics have called on TSA to quit screening "obvious" non-threats like kids and retirees and focus screening on intelligence-based targets. Well ... how is the TSA supposed to determine what passengers merit additional screening without doing some sort of analysis of the available data?
Trusted Traveler appears, to this completely uninformed bystander, to be getting at that process in a sort of inverse manner: they're using available data to choose whom not to screen intensely, rather than identifying threats. Ok, it's a bit backwards ... but if Trusted Traveler becomes available on a widespread basis (i.e. not just FF elites and GE holders), it might accomplish the same ends.
In short ... TSA is trying to be more intelligent about who it spends time screening. Isn't this basically a good thing?
So far, it seems that TT has allowed a few people predetermined to be trust-worthy due to an abundance of repetition routine air-travel and shared personal information to walk through the metal detector wearing shoes and outer clothing through the checkpoint. How intelligent is it if someone who simply cannot walk cannot be trusted no matter how much else is known about them?