Technology has now taken us to the next generation of TSA screening. The U.S. government is now implemeting equipment that can sense changes in pulse rate and breathing. These subtle changes, invisible to the naked eye can even sense tiny changes in skin temperature and set TSA crews into action to further interview and assess a possible terrorist. Or, could they be hassling an innocent passenger that’s simply afraid to fly?

The Feds have great hopes that this high tech big brother technology will pay off big. The biometric equipment is ow being tested and implemented by the TSA, in airports all over the US. Critics state that such types of screenings may be invasive and misused.

Proponents of the new equipment claim it is fast and portable, measuring vital signs similarly as a polygraph would, with one major difference. It doesn’t require wires to be physically connected to the person of interest. That makes scanning covert and quick as the subject merely needs to walk by a set of cameras.

The TSA thus far has trained more than 2,000 screeners to observe passengers as they walk through airports, questioning those who seem oddly nervous. The system would be portable and fast according to the project manager who envisions machines that scan people as they walk into airports, train stations or arenas. Those flagged by the machines would be interviewed in front of cameras that measure minute facial movements for signs of attempted deception.

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