High-tech gadgets for better or worse have taken us to the next level of TSA screening. We can now detect a passenger's quickened pulse and labored breathing, to set off warnings that he may be a terrorist. A simple indication that the skin temperature is rising, may set TSA crews into action prompting an invasive investigation. Is he a terrorist? Or is suffering a simple fear of flying?
The Feds have great hopes that this high tech big brother technology will pay off big. The biometric equipment is ow being tested and implemented by the TSA, in airports all over the US. Critics state that such types of screenings may be invasive and misinterpreted.
Proponents of the new equipment claim it is fast and portable, measuring vital signs similarly as a polygraph would, with one major difference. It doesn't require wires to be physically connected to the person of interest. That makes scanning covert and quick as the subject merely needs to walk by a set of cameras.
The TSA now has trained over 2000 of its technicians to use these devices, and interview those who are deemed as "risky." The new devices are designed to measure people during normal activity, and then flag suspicious ones. Those flagged with be further interviewed directly in front of the cameras that can detect the tiniest facial movements to determine if they are trying to hide something.