Thursday, July 31, 2008

Travelling by Plane – Are You Being Spied On?

A prototype surveillance system being tested by the European Union would place cameras inside the back of every passenger seat to track the facial expressions of travellers and catch would-be terrorists and unruly flyers on the brink of "air rage." Read on at:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/spy-cams-in-pla.html

The surveillance systems is part of Project SAFEE, an EU project, the baseline of which is past experience, which has demonstrated that hostile persons may go through the different airport controls and security measures, access an aircraft, and even initiate hostile actions. There is therefore a need to secure the aircraft itself as the last barrier to attacks. The project is focused on the implementation of onboard threat detection systems and the provision of reliable threat information to the flight crew.