Download or read book Secure Flight written by Jennifer A. Grover and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2009, Secure Flight has changed from a program that identifies passengers as high risk solely by matching them against subsets of the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), to one that uses personally identifiable information (PII) and other information to assign passengers a risk category: high risk, low risk, or unknown risk. Secure Flight has established privacy oversight mechanisms to protect this PII. This report examines (1) the extent to which the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented privacy oversight mechanisms to address Secure Flight privacy requirements; and (2) the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) redress process addresses any delays and inconveniences that result from Secure Flight screening. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Secure Flight written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secure Flight: TSA Could Take Additional Steps to Strenthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms
Download or read book Secure Flight Tsa Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms written by United States Government Accountability and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secure Flight program, as implemented pursuant to the 2008 Secure Flight Final Rule, requires commercial aircraft operators traveling to, from, within, or overflying the United States to collect information from passengers and transmit that information electronically to TSA. This information, known collectively as Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD), includes PII, including full name, gender, date of birth, passport information, and certain non-personally identifiable information provided by the airline, such as itinerary information and the unique number associated with a travel record (record number locator).
Download or read book Report on Legislative and Oversight Activities of the House Committee on Homeland Security written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizenship as Foundation of Rights written by Richard Sobel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.
Download or read book Safeguarding Privacy and Civil Liberties While Keeping Our Skies Safe written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Transportation Security and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protecting Transportation written by R William Johnstone and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting Transportation: Implementing Security Policies and Programs provides a thorough overview of transportation security in the United States, with a focus on policy. The book coversall major transportation modes and puts the American security system into perspective against other national and international systems. Author R. William Johnstone, a transportation security expert and member of the 9/11 Commission staff, discusses how the current transportation security system came to be and how it is performing. Whether you are a current or aspiring transportation security professional, a policymaker, or an engaged citizen, Johnstone’s presentation equips you to understand today’s issues and debates on a problem that affects every member of the global community. Transportation security has evolved in the years since 9/11 from a relatively modest, sporadic undertaking into a multi-billion dollar enterprise employing tens of thousands. Protecting Transportation describes how that system is organized, funded, and implemented. Fosters critical thinking by reviewing the development and evaluation of key transportation security programs Clarifies security issues in the context of civil liberties, federal spending, and terrorist incidents in the United States and globally Considers the “inputs” of security policy, including laws, regulations, and programs; and the “outcomes,” such as enforcement, effectiveness metrics, and workforce morale
Download or read book Improving Pre screening of Aviation Passengers Against Terrorist and Other Watch Lists written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secure Flight written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secure Flight: Additional Actions Needed to Determine Program Effectiveness and Strengthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms
Download or read book Department of Homeland Security Oversight written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aviation Security written by Cathleen A. Berrick and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To enhance aviation security, the Transportation Security Admin. (TSA) developed a program -- known as Secure Flight (SF) -- to assume from air carriers the function of matching passenger info. against terrorist watch-list records. This report assesses the extent to which TSA met the requirements of 10 conditions related to the development of the SF program. The auditor: (1) identified key activities related to each of the 10 conditions; (2) identified fed. guidance and best practices that are relevant to successfully meeting each condition; (3) analyzed whether TSA had demonstrated that the guidance was followed and best practices were met; and (4) assessed the risks assoc. with not fully following applicable guidance and meeting best practices.
Download or read book Air Passenger Screening written by U. s. Government Accountability Office and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) receives thousands of air passenger screening complaints through five mechanisms, but does not have an agency wide policy or consistent processes to guide receipt and use of such information. For example, from October 2009 through June 2012, TSA received more than 39,000 screening complaints through its TSA Contact Center (TCC). However, the data from the five mechanisms do not reflect the full nature and extent of complaints because local TSA staff have discretion in implementing TSA's complaint processes, including how they receive and document complaints. For example, comment cards are used at four of the six airports GAO contacted, but TSA does not have a policy requiring that complaints submitted using the cards be tracked or reported centrally. A consistent policy to guide all TSA efforts to receive and document complaints would improve TSA's oversight of these activities and help ensure consistent implementation. TSA also uses TCC data to inform the public about air passenger screening complaints, monitor operational effectiveness of airport security checkpoints, and make changes as needed. However, TSA does not use data from its other four mechanisms, in part because the complaint categories differ, making data consolidation difficult. A process to systematically collect information from all mechanisms, including standard complaint categories, would better enable TSA to improve operations and customer service. TSA has several methods to inform passengers about its complaint processes, but does not have an agency wide policy or mechanism to ensure consistent use of these methods among commercial airports. For example, TSA has developed standard signs, stickers, and customer comment cards that can be used at airport checkpoints to inform passengers about how to submit feedback to TSA; however, GAO found inconsistent use at the six airports it contacted. For example, two airports displayed customer comment cards at the checkpoint, while at two others the cards were provided upon request. Passengers may be reluctant to ask for such cards, however, according to TSA. TSA officials at four of the six airports also said that the agency could do more to share best practices for informing passengers about complaint processes. Policies for informing the public about complaint processes and mechanisms for sharing best practices among local TSA officials could help provide TSA reasonable assurance that these activities are being conducted consistently and help local TSA officials learn from one another about what practices work well. TSA's complaint resolution processes do not fully conform to standards of independence to ensure that these processes are fair, impartial, and credible, but the agency is taking steps to improve independence. Specifically, TSA airport officials responsible for resolving air passenger complaints are generally in the same chain of command as TSA airport staff who are the subjects of the complaints. TSA is developing a new process that could help ensure greater independence by TSA units referring air passenger complaints directly to its Ombudsman Division and by providing passengers an independent avenue to make complaints to that division. TSA also plans to initiate a program by January 2013 in which selected TSA airport staff are to be trained as passenger advocates as a collateral duty. It is too early to assess the extent to which these initiatives will help mitigate possible concerns about independence.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computerworld written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.
Download or read book Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability written by Deborah G. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveillance and transparency are both significant and increasingly pervasive activities in neoliberal societies. Surveillance is taken up as a means to achieving security and efficiency; transparency is seen as a mechanism for ensuring compliance or promoting informed consumerism and informed citizenship. Indeed, transparency is often seen as the antidote to the threats and fears of surveillance. This book adopts a novel approach in examining surveillance practices and transparency practices together as parallel systems of accountability. It presents the house of mirrors as a new framework for understanding surveillance and transparency practices instrumented with information technology. The volume centers around five case studies: Campaign Finance Disclosure, Secure Flight, American Red Cross, Google, and Facebook. A series of themed chapters draw on the material and provide cross-case analysis. The volume ends with a chapter on policy implications.
Download or read book Airport and Aviation Security written by Bartholomew Elias and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The response of the U.S. federal government to the events of September 11, 2001 has reflected the challenge of striking a balance between implementing security measures to deter terrorist attacks while at the same time limiting disruption to air commerce. Airport and Aviation Security: U.S. Policy and Strategy in the Age of Global Terrorism is a co
Download or read book Airport Passenger Screening Using Backscatter X Ray Machines written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In response to increased concern over terrorist attacks on aircrafts, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed security systems of advanced imaging technology (AIT) to screen passengers at airports. To date (December 2014), TSA has deployed AITs in U.S. airports of two different technologies that use different types of radiation to detect threats: millimeter wave and X-ray backscatter AIT systems. X-ray backscatter AITs were deployed in U.S. airports in 2008 and subsequently removed from all airports by June 2013 due to privacy concerns. TSA is looking to deploy a second-generation X-ray backscatter AIT equipped with privacy software to eliminate production of an image of the person being screened in order to alleviate these concerns. This report reviews previous studies as well as current processes used by the Department of Homeland Security and equipment manufacturers to estimate radiation exposures resulting from backscatter X-ray advanced imaging technology system use in screening air travelers. Airport Passenger Screening Using Backscatter X-Ray Machines examines whether exposures comply with applicable health and safety standards for public and occupational exposures to ionizing radiation and whether system design, operating procedures, and maintenance procedures are appropriate to prevent over exposures of travelers and operators to ionizing radiation. This study aims to address concerns about exposure to radiation from X-ray backscatter AITs raised by Congress, individuals within the scientific community, and others.
