Muslims fly in the States each and every day and seldom have any problems
You have to surrender so much information about yourself you might as well be tagged like an animal.
You're either knowingly engaging in hyperbole, or you've never flown in the States. If you honestly believe that, I suggest a tinfoil hat
In America, airlines hand over data such as name, address, credit card number, origin and destination, passport number for international travellers, travel history, travel companions, and seat assignments, dates of birth, account details of frequent fliers, hotel accommodations of those booking a package through a travel agent, and even meal requests (
ordering the halal option) to form a more complete picture of a traveller to place in context with previous data accumulated.
They clearly aren't monitoring people called Buster, Paul or David. If you are brown or have a Muslim name or ever flown to a Muslim country then you have a greater chance of being targeted. I'm guessing that this is something that will never concern you.
Before accusing me of "engaging in hyperbole", if you just searched the internet then you'd find the following articles which took me 2 minutes to find.
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Associated PressThe world's largest airline said it shared approximately 1.2 million passenger itineraries with the Transportation Security Administration?.followed similar disclosures by JetBlue Airways and Northwest Airlines
A nationwide computer system aimed at screening all airline passengers is being developed by the TSA. The Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, ordered by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks, will check such things as credit reports and consumer transactions and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists.
nytimes.comThe European Union's highest court ruled Tuesday that the Union had overstepped its authority by agreeing to give the United States personal details about airline passengers on flights to America in an effort to fight terrorism.
theregister.co.ukFeds implement mass passenger data trawl
Introducing the 'Automated Targeting System
Whenever the US government runs afoul of public opinion with some data-mining scheme threatening to invade the privacy of millions, it changes the name and then goes ahead as planned. We had the "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) federal scheme to mine official and commercial databases, which morphed into the MATRIX, an interconnected state scheme to mine official and commercial databases, to which the federal government has access.
We had the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-screening System (CAPPS-2), a scheme to mine official and commercial databases and produce a threat assessment of each passenger. After the public indicated its displeasure, its name was changed to the warmer and fuzzier "Secure Flight", but Congress still shut it down due to privacy and accuracy concerns.
Now it's back, with a new name and acronym, the Automated Targeting System (ATS).
"ATS standardises names, addresses, conveyance names, and similar data so these data elements can be more easily associated with other business data and personal information to form a more complete picture of a traveller, import, or export in context with previous behaviour of the parties involved".
So it's quite clear that commercial profiles will be in the mix: whether one rents or owns a house, credit activity, travel history, and the like. It was this sort of personal data that gave CAPPS-2 such a bad name among the public, and prompted Congress to suspend it. People are less concerned about a quick check against lists of known terrorists and wanted criminals. They're a lot more concerned about being "evaluated" on the basis of where they live, what they buy, where they travel, and how up-to-date their credit payments are by some remote government clerk with a computer.
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