Saturday, December 19, 2009

Keeping You Safe - CNBC.com

There's a fast growing but controversial security technique now being used by the Transportation Security Administrator to keep you safer, with Paul Ekman in this older video that describes some of the training.

The program gets some bad press because they have not caught a terrorist, but as a result there have been hundreds of arrests for traveling with false documentation.

I believe this a great program and feel safer traveling by air as a result.

Keeping You Safe - CNBC.com
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like Dr. Ekman's striving to prevent "misindentfication of truthful people under suspicion", which may be due to profiling/bias/sterotypes promoted by media:

43:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA8nYZg4VnI

Anonymous said...

Biases can be reduced by understanding cross-cultural communication challenges

http://www.pbs.org/ampu/crosscult.html

Anonymous said...

Dr. David Matsumoto also specializes in cultural psychology and has several books, articles, and chapters on it:

http://www.davidmatsumoto.com/publications.php

Anonymous said...

Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq by Michael Scheuer

Scheuer was a career CIA employee who long headed the Agency’s bin Laden tracking unit. Here he writes about how US policies, especially US support for Israel, is damaging to US national security and are a cause of anti-American sentiment.

http://tinyurl.com/ye9q659