Now Fliers Can Keep Their Shoes On -- If They Let Big Brother Inspect Their Big Data

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5. So what Outside Contractors will have access to search our "Web Browsing History?"

To me this sounds like a Moment. Surrender all your "Consumer Data" for $85- and you get to travel without harrassment. Paying to give away all your Privacy or get subjected to radiation and a "grope down?"

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"Pre✓” enrollment is expected to cost $85 -- and the loss of privacy. TSA is weighing a contract that would hire private screeners to parse an applicant’s consumer data, such Web browsing histories, for signs of danger before admission into express inspection programs.

"TSA Pre✓ is one expedited aviation screening initiative" and the agency is researching "a further expansion of expedited physical screening" to understand how "pre-screening processes conducted by non-governmental entities ('third parties') can enhance aviation security by placing more focus on pre-screening individuals," states a January call for industry demonstrations.

Agency officials said in April that they aimed to finish evaluating the concept by the end of this year.

Under the plan, a company would aggregate biographic and biometric “non-governmental data elements to generate an assessment of the risk to the aviation transportation system that may be posed by a specific individual,” the notice states. The vendor would have to provide a “reliable method that effectively identifies known travelers, based on a sound analysis and the application of an algorithm that produces dependable results.”