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		<title>[Airport] TSA screening facial expressions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you were not secure enough, please don&#8217;t look too anxious in airport:
&#8220;Travelers at Sea-Tac and dozens of other major airports across America are being scrutinized by teams of TSA behavior-detection officers specially trained to discern the subtlest suspicious behaviors.
TSA officials will not reveal specific behaviors identified by the program &#8212; called SPOT [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just in case you were not secure enough, please don&#8217;t look too anxious in airport:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Travelers at Sea-Tac and dozens of other major airports across America are being scrutinized by teams of TSA behavior-detection officers specially trained to discern the subtlest suspicious behaviors.</p>
<p>TSA officials will not reveal specific behaviors identified by the program &#8212; called SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) &#8212; that are considered indicators of possible terrorist intent.&#8221;<br />
<em>&#8211; source: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/344868_airportprofiler26.html">seattlepi.com</a></em>
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<p>No wonder which the manual book they used to develop this new kind of screening:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself &#8212; anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.&#8221;<br />
<em>&#8211; 1984 by George Orwell</em>
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<p>What woud be interesting is to follow the propagation of airport security into real live. Today for example, it&#8217;s mandatory to put your name on your luggage when you travel by train (in France at least), is it something coming from airplane security?</p>
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