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Homeland Security will let computers predict who might be a terrorist on your plane — Just don’t ask how it works — The Intercept

The Department of Homeland Security is now complicating the picture further by paying a private Virginia firm to build a software algorithm with the power to flag you as someone who might try to blow up the plane, writes Sam Biddle.

Here is the link: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/03/air-travel-surveillance-homeland-security/

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