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Secure Flight of questionable effectiveness
Turbulent skies: The GAO issues a report questioning the effectiveness of Secure Flight — at the same time that the airline industry wants TSA to scrap the Registered Travel program
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Aussies support national ID system
Aussies tend to be independent sorts, but they now support a mandatory biometric national ID card
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Stanford student sues TSA over no-fly list
Malaysian graduate student sues DHS for having been placed on no-fly lists, and denied re-entry into U.S. to complete studies
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Palm Springs Airport to spend $10 million on fully automated explosive detection system
Desert airport to invest in explosive detection systems
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Las Vegas airport exploits smaller EDSs to free up space for passenger screening nodes
To facilitate surge in traffic, Las Vegas airport devotes less space to EDS —now possible because of smaller size of machines
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More orders for Global ePoint cockpit surveillance device
International travel grew by more than 5 percent last year — and so have orders for new planes, which is good business for a company making a popular cockpit surveillance equipment
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Mega-mall in Sydney airport is a terrorism risk, report
New mega-mall planned for Sydney’s bustling airport was supposed to bring in tourists and commerce, but report says it is more likely to attract terrorists
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No terrorist connection in LAX incident
Last November a pilot saw a plume of smoke as he was flying over LAX, raising fears of a shoulder-mounted missile attack; investigation concludes this was not the case
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Airlines oppose administration's plan to hike airline security fee
For three years now the administration has tried and failed to raise the airport security fee; the airlines object as ferociously as ever, but this time the administration may succeed
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