U.S. Reviewing Air Passenger-Screening Plan

After reading this passage, do you feel safer getting on an airplane? "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suspended development of an airline passenger-screening program until it can assess any threats to passenger privacy. … Prompted by hundreds of complaints, the department is reviewing its Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, known as CAPPS II, to ensure it complies with privacy laws." There's a political battle underway, in fact, between those who focus on "threats to passenger privacy" and those who, like myself, focus on threats to passenger's lives. (June 15, 2003)

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