EU CONSULTANTS REPORT WARNS REGISTERED PASSENGER SCHEMES COULD UNDERMINE AIRPORT SECURITY
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSULTANTS report written for the European Commission has warned that registered passenger schemes designed to identify certain passengers as a low risk in security terms could make controls less effective if used insensitively. Written by Accenture, Daon, and the Irish Aviation Authority, the report argues that because "precise criteria to assess passengers as 'lower than average risk' are hard to define because of a lack of clear criteria...that passengers are not classified as 'high-risk' does not automatically mean they qualify as ...
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