TSA actually spent only $47,000 on the random assignment app
I think all of the tech discussions misses the bigger picture of why a random app to begin with. It is to ensure racial profiling or other profiling is not the trigger to put people on one side of the line or the other. Frankly, I find this a bit too PC, and from my experience in life, a bit of common sense, and using your &#x27;eyes&#x27; (judgement included) is needed here. You will have idiots using their own eyes and judgement sure, but you will have idiots using the TSA iPad app too without using their &#x27;eyes&#x27;. I grew up in Sunset Park Brooklyn, NY. I could get beat up 4 times a week if I didn&#x27;t simply &#x27;racially profile&#x27;, and cross the street when seeing a group of hispanic-looking guys drinking beer out of brown paper bags after school (a hint they had nothing better to do). Being white in a +90% Puerto Rican &#x2F; Dominican neighborhood with platinum blonde hair until age 14 made me stand out to say the least. If I had used a random &#x27;cross the street&#x27; | &#x27;stay on this side&#x27;, I could expect to get beat up 50% of the time ;) I learned how to avoid the common prejudices of some of the morons in my neighborhood, while maintaining some rational level of discrimination and common sense. Yes, sometimes you will miss the radicalized Nordic-looking or UK youth, but I bet the odds of the discriminatory eye will beat a random search any day in a large population sample.