TSA unveils PreCheck—it’s new Trusted Traveler Program. Testing begins in four markets with a select group of people. Notice they don’t say registering with this program will make getting through security any faster just that it “may” do so. Time will tell. Hopefully it won’t turn out like the testing in Boston where “specially trained” TSO’s ask every passenger a series of questions to judge their facial expressions. In some cases the wait to get through security was four hours.
In other TSA news, the agency announced it will purchase and test new machines to authenticate ID’s and boarding passes. According to TSA’s privacy officer “the machines have minimal privacy implications because only a limited amount of personal information is collected by the machines and because this information “is deleted after use.” Hmm….where have we heard that before?
In case you haven’t heard, Apple has announced the new Iphone 4S.
Washington’s National Cathedral, damaged in the August 23rd earthquake, will reopen on November 12th.