Once the airlines returned to the skies on Sept. They remained on patrol for several months. Taking off your shoes before passing through security quickly became a requirement. Then, in , British officials intercepted an attempt to carry liquid explosives aboard a flight, resulting in a ban on all liquids.
This was later modified to restricting passengers to liquids of no more than 3. By , the full-body scanner had become a familiar sight at airports throughout the U. These new security measures became the responsibility of the federal government to enforce. In November , Congress created the Transportation Security Agency , and by the early months of , their employees had become the face of transportation security throughout the United States — at airports as well as railroads, subways and other forms of transportation.
Today, the TSA employs over 50, agents. The law required that all checked bags be screened, cockpit doors be reinforced, and more federal air marshals be put on flights. Nothing even close. But after that day, flying changed forever. Security measures evolved with new threats, and so travelers were asked to take off belts and remove some items from bags for scanning. Each new requirement seemed to make checkpoint lines longer, forcing passengers to arrive at the airport earlier if they wanted to make their flights.
To many travelers, other rules were more mystifying, such as limits on liquids because the wrong ones could possibly be used to concoct a bomb. The north Texas retirees, who traveled frequently before the pandemic, said they are more worried about COVID than terrorism. On its application and in brief interviews, PreCheck asks people about basic information like work history and where they have lived, and they give a fingerprint and agree to a criminal-records check.
More than 10 million people have enrolled in PreCheck. TSA wants to raise that to 25 million. The goal is to let TSA officers spend more time on passengers considered to be a bigger risk.
At the direction of Congress, the TSA will expand the use of private vendors to gather information from PreCheck applicants. It currently uses a company called Idemia, and plans by the end of the year to add two more — Telos Identity Management Solutions and Clear Secure Inc. Clear, which recently went public, plans to use PreCheck enrollment to boost membership in its own identity-verification product by bundling the two offerings. The TSA is testing the use of kiosks equipped with facial-recognition technology to check photo IDs and boarding passes rather than having an officer do it.
Critics say facial-recognition technology makes errors, especially on people of color. TSA officials told privacy advocates earlier this year that those kiosks will also pull photos taken when the traveler applied for PreCheck, McKinney says.
That concerns her because it would mean connecting the kiosks to the internet — TSA says that much is true — and potentially exposing the information to hackers. Flight attendants and air marshals were outraged when the agency proposed in to let passengers carry folding pocket knives and other long-banned items on planes again. Accounting for the added time to screen for banned items and possible enhanced security now requires travelers to get to the airport hours earlier than they did before Sept.
Airports have been screening for potential hijackers since , when the FAA developed a profiling system to use in conjunction with metal detectors. Last year, The Intercept obtained and published a confidential list of behaviors and traits TSA agents look out for.
The list was published a week after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the TSA to obtain records about its behavior detection programs, claiming they allowed for racial profiling and specifically targeted African American women, who said they were being subjected to excessive and embarrassing pat-downs of their hair.
The guidelines are full of murky language. In , The Intercept reported, the government disclosed that of the , nominations for the list that year, only about 1 percent were rejected. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost?
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