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Homeland Security

IATA Pushing for Airport Checkpoints That Focus on "Bad People"

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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 230 of the world's passenger and cargo airlines, is pushing for world governments and airports to begin looking at new airport security checkpoints that try to ferret out "bad people" not just "bad things" based on risk mitigation factors, mainly known information about air travelers. The near-term concept that IATA hopes will be tested at an airport or two in the next year or two would separate checkpoints into three lanes, Known…

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