[1]Government Spying While You're Flying Is Getting Worse: Reason
  Roundup:

    It's not just federal employees who are spying while you're flying.
    The Department of Homeland Security has been training airline and
    airport staff on how to "spot the signs" of human trafficking, with
    a list about as asinine and broad as the above TSA criteria. So far,
    this has led to an array of travelers getting harassed and detained
    because some airline attendant had a "hunch" that interracial
    families are probably human traffickers.

    The latest example, [2]told in full absurdist splendor by the Daily
    Mail, involves Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant Wesley Hirata
    informing the authorities that there was an Asian man with three
    Caucasian girls on a flight. The Mail calls Hirata and her
    colleagues "heroes" for "alerting cops to [a] human trafficking
    suspect who boarded a flight with three young girls."

    Two of the "young girls" were adults. The FBI investigated and found
    no evidence of anything bad going on. "Regardless," the Mail
    reports, "Hirata has said he's pleased" with himself for calling the
    FBI on some totally innocent travelers.

  (Via [3]Hit & Run)

  Sadly, this is only one of many [4]ridiculous [5]examples. There are
  valid, useful ways to address human trafficking on airplanes. Giving
  flight attendants criteria that basically describes "people" and then
  celebrating them for being wildly wrong is not one of them.
  Also on:

  [6]Twitter
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  My original entry is here: [7]Government Spying While You're Flying Is
  Getting Worse: Reason Roundup ←. It posted Tue, 31 Jul 2018 13:41:07
  +0000.
  Filed under: global, personal,

References

  1. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/0KQcgWbf11Y/quiet-skies-is-spying-while-youre-flying
  2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6000045/Hawaiian-Airlines-flight-attendants-hailed-heroes-saving-suspected-human-trafficking-victims.html
  3. https://reason.com/blog
  4. http://www.newser.com/story/259961/airline-worker-insists-woman-prove-shes-biracial-sons-mother.html
  5. http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/11/28/delta-passenger-claims-crew-mistook-her-for-human-trafficking-victim.html
  6. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/1024289891901878272
  7. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1363

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