ACLU: Muslim Profiling and Behavioral Profiling

Mike · Jun 2, 2012

ACLU: Muslim Profiling and Behavioral Profiling

One of the strengths of Schneier’s argument is that he focuses on the bureaucratic nature of the TSA—I don’t mean that as a pejorative, just that it is of necessity a large, rule-based organization that seeks to standardize its policies and practices. Schneier emphasizes the difficulty the TSA would have in implementing standards for the profiling of Muslims, noting that, “since there's no such thing as ‘looking Muslim’—it's a belief system, not an ethnic group—they're going to sort on something like ‘looking Arab,’ whatever that ends up meaning.”

The gross inadequacy of profiling based on looks, due to the wide variety of ethnicities within the Muslim world, or the wide variety of people who could be construed as “looking Arab”—would quickly become apparent. What would happen at that point?

Inevitably, the screening agency would start feeling pressure to go beyond looks.
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