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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

TSA Considering Use Personal Tech in Pockets to Determine Wait in Security Lines

“The Transportation Security Administration is looking at installing devices in airports that home in and detect personal electronic equipment. The aim is to track how long people are stuck in security lines.” Ideally, a bluetooth tracker would note when a device enters the security line and when it later, leaves. Of course, there are privacy concerns, but in a test by Purdue University that ran for a month last year at Indianapolis International Airport only partial serial numbers were used for tracking, and then they were dropped.

- USA Today via @timorielly

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