Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The TSA wants to make a lot more use of commercial database (mis)information and use that to determine which currently non-PreCheck-enrolled individuals should be given the LLL treatment going forward even if not enrolling in PreCheck. This will be in some ways a return to the stupid CAPPS(II) system ways that the TSA wants.
This pursued change is a tell that the TSA isn't satisfied with just (In)SecureFlight and being limited to using just primarily government-created-and-administered blacklists. Rather, the TSA wants its own enlarged fiefdom and expanded powers.
The system the TSA wants will indeed have a racial bias to it. The commercial databases mess up individuals who are ethnic minorities far more frequently than it messes up individuals who are part of the ethnic majority. Then there are those in the TSA who are bigoted, and that will also further the racial bias under any new system relying upon "questioning" of passengers.
Don't forget Facebook. We've already seen a couple of well-publicized incidents where someone in the media shot his mouth based on the wrong Facebook profile (someone with the same/similar name).
TSA (all of DHS) starts from the viewpoint that all pax are guilty, until conditionally proven 'OK' for one checkpoint passage only. That kind of thinking prevents them from admitting that perhaps, just maybe, they've got a mismatch between information and the individual in front of them.