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62 U. Miami L. Rev. 1 (2007-2008)
Is Airline Passenger Profiling Necessary

handle is hein.journals/umialr62 and id is 9 raw text is: University of Miami Law Review VOLUME 62 OCTOBER 2007 NUMBER 1 ARTICLES Is Airline Passenger Profiling Necessary? TIMOTHY M. RAVICH* I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 1 II. PROFILING INITIATIVES ................................................ 5 A. Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) ............ 9 B . CA PPS II ....................................................... 16 C . Secure Flight .................................................... 19 D. Biometrics and the Registered Traveler Program ...................... 25 III. D ISCUSSION .. ....................................................... 29 A. Identifying the Enemy ............................................. 31 B. Is Airline Passenger Profiling Rational or Racist? .................... 37 C. Security or Privacy: A False Choice? ............................... 45 D. An International Perspective: E.U.-U.S .............................. 48 IV . C ONCLUSION. ........................................................ 53 I. INTRODUCTION On August 10, 2006 British intelligence prevented a terrorist plot to blow up ten airplanes by detonating common liquids.' In response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) banned certain carry-on items.2 In May 2007 TSA unveiled FIDO, a hand-held scanner capa- * Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law. The author presented aspects of this article at the 46th Annual Transportation Research Forum at George Washington University as chair of a panel featuring representatives of the Transportation Security Administration, Heritage Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and American Civil Liberties Union. Thanks to Dr. Richard W. Bloom, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Director, Terrorism, Intelligence, and Security Studies, and Gregory A. Popp, Director, Center for Professional Education & Legal Affairs, both of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, for their invaluable comments on earlier versions of this article. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author, who welcomes comments at ravicht@bellsouth.net. 1. Agent Infiltrated Terror Cell, U.S. Says, CNN.coM, Aug. 11, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/ 2006/US/08/10/US.security/index.html. 2. See John M. Doyle, Bomb Plot Fallout, AVIATION WK. & SPACE TECH., Oct. 2, 2006, at