MISSION CREEP : CAPPS II MAY END UP COSTING TAXPAYERS A LOT OF MONEY WHILE ONLY PARTIALLY ACHIEVING ITS GOAL OF IMPROVING AVIATION SECURITY

This article offers a critique of the new United States pre-flight security system, CAPPS II (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created as a compromise between more intensive risk evaluation and privacy invasion. Created by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), CAPPS II has become the government approved security software after Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001 with the goal of increasing security and pre-flight passenger risk assessment. The TSA requires that all carriers serving U.S. markets, including international airlines for inbound and outbound markets, provide the TSA with four data elements for all individuals purchasing a ticket: name, address, date of birth and telephone number. This information, once fed into CAPPS II and blended with government, financial, and other databases, will yield a passenger risk score that will be encoded in passenger boarding passes. The article discusses privacy concerns, as well as looking at the concept of using a global Passenger Name Record (PNR) as an alternative to CAPPS II.

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  Penton Media

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• Authors:
  • Feldman, J M
• Publication Date: 2003-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 48-50
• Serial:
  • ATW: Air Transport World
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Penton Media
  • ISSN: 0002-2543

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Identification systems; Passenger screening; Passengers; Privacy; Risk assessment; Security
• Identifier Terms: Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (Capps Ii); U.S. Transportation Security Administration
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Passenger Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00961076
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 4 2003 12:00AM