Behind the TSA’s possible plans to use your credit card data at airport security
Photo Credit: TSA Pre Check at Washington Dulles airport. Flickr.com / Elton Lin
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The TSA should be praised for seeking ways to qualify more people for expedited screening. But, is handing over the grunt work to commercial companies accessing your personal information the best alternative?
Do you want to get into the TSA's PreCheck program, but you aren't an elite traveler and one of the chosen few? The TSA has a proposition for you: Hand over your personal information to a third-party company, and the TSA could qualify you for expedited screening.
The TSA is soliciting white papers from commercial companies on how best to accomplish this, and it says a prototype of the system to broaden its risk-assessment efforts in this manner should be operational before the end of 2013. Full PDF of that solicitation embedded below.
Under the program, non-governmental organizations would ask travelers to voluntarily provide them with as-yet-to-be determined personal information that they and the TSA could use to determine travelers' relative security risks.
The information would be transferred to the Secure Flight system, and participating travel
