The problem with this kind of profiling is that it's not going to be able to tell the difference between the diabetic with low blood sugar level, the guy in seat 32A with a stomach virus or the girl in 49C with tourette or the guy in business class who's just found out his high school sweetheart and wife of 20 years has been sleeping with the pool guy. Machines are programmed by people and when people see a nervous person they rarely know why he or she are behaving the way they are. They ASSUME the person in question is up to no good.
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The problem with this kind of profiling is that it's not going to be able to tell the difference between the diabetic with low blood sugar level, the guy in seat 32A with a stomach virus or the girl in 49C with tourette or the guy in business class who's just found out his high school sweetheart and wife of 20 years has been sleeping with the pool guy. Machines are programmed by people and when people see a nervous person they rarely know why he or she are behaving the way they are. They ASSUME the person in question is up to no good.
I think i had all those people on my flight back from DC last week. What a nightmare.