'Checkpoint of the future' takes shape at Texas airport, page 1

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Topic started on 21-6-2012 @ 07:41 PM by Nspekta

Ok, so this is supposed to make waiting to get through security a thing of the past..
That would mean no more TSA 'reacharounds',, BUT, the tradeoff? You'd have to use your fingerprints and iris to get through..

USA Today

DALLAS – At a terminal being renovated here at Love Field, contractors are installing 500 high-definition security cameras sharp enough to read an auto license plate or a logo on a shirt. The cameras, capable of tracking passengers from the parking garage to gates to the tarmac, are a key first step in creating what the airline industry would like to see at airports worldwide: a security apparatus that would scrutinize passengers more thoroughly, but less intrusively, and in faster fashion than now.

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After checking their luggage, passengers would identify themselves not with driver's licenses and paper boarding passes, but by scanning fingerprints or irises to prove they have an electronic ticket.

Passengers would walk with their carry-ons through a screening tunnel, where they'd undergo electronic scrutiny — replacing what now happens at as many as three different stops as they're scanned for metal objects, non-metallic items and explosives.

Granted, I think the NEXUS system in Canada uses your iris to identify you.. its like a 'fast-pass' through security.
However if the future airports are like this, it seems you would have no choice but to give up your fingerprints and iris to be able to fly..! OR is a TSA search better?

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Not to mention the 'Screening tunnel'.. I wonder how much radiation that thing pumps out..I'm guessing it would be a more sophisticated, forced naked body type-scanner..
You can see how it would definitely save time...

Thoughts?!