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US To Colour-Code-Visitors' Risk Level
A red code will bar a passenger from flying, while being tagged as yellow will force passengers to undergo extra security screening and questioning. An estimated 95 per cent of passengers will be coded as green, or low risk, and allowed to board through normal security channels.
The plan is designed to replace a much-derided computerised system used to detect potential terrorists, which picks out anyone paying cash for a flight or anyone flying on a one-way ticket.
The new system, expected to come into force next month, will collect passengers' names, dates of birth, home addresses, credit card numbers, passport and visa details, and travel itineraries, and compare them with criminal and terrorist watch lists.
Privacy lawsuits have scared US airlines away from volunteering to hand over passenger records during the testing phase. European airlines have been co-operating.
Negotiations between the European Union and the US have resulted in some concessions, including guarantees that all data indicating racial or ethnic profiling would be filtered and deleted as airline information is passed to US databases.
. A passenger with a name similar to an al-Qa'eda suspect failed to turn up for an Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles at the weekend, for the second time in three weeks.
The name sparked a security alert but French authorities later said it was a case of mistaken identity.
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