Is there a way to find out if someone has been flagged?
As suspicious as it sounds, I'm asking this for a friend. She was born in a European country, grew up there, has lived there all her life but her parents are Kurds who fled from Turkey before she was born.
Therefore, her name is not western but to the untrained eye maybe looks Middle-Eastern or something like that. But she has a European passport.
Every time she flies, she gets extra security checks. She's picked out of a queue for extra baggage checks, she gets taken to a separate room for immigration checks or recently when she was flying to the US with a stopover in London she could not check into the second leg of the flight beforehand - she had to go to the counter at the airport.
Is there a way to find out if she is just super unlucky, or if her name has been flagged (for whatever reason - maybe she shares her name with some kind of international suspect)?
I'm not talking about bribing an official to find out or anything like that. Just if there is a legal way for her to find out if this is random or not. Because this seems to go even beyond ethnic profiling.
(Hoping this is the right forum to post this)