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TSA demands PNR data.

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The Transportation Security Administration last month mandated domestic carriers relinquish passenger name record data to test its Secure Flight program. The revamped version of the scrapped second-generation computer assisted passenger prescreening system revives industry concerns about privacy, cost, logistics and security.

TSA expects U.S.-based airlines by late-October to begin passing along such data, upon which the government will start testing the Secure Flight system "at full load and full speed," TSA said.

"On Oct. 29, the aircraft operator must submit to its principal security inspector all PNRs with flight segments flown during the month of June 2004 that reflect itineraries of passengers for transport by the aircraft operator on a scheduled flight within the United States," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in its notice to the airlines. TSA on Sept. 23 also began a 30-day period of soliciting comments from the public on the Secure Flight proposal.

TSA is delivering on its August promise that within the following 30 to 60 days it would begin checking up to 2 million daily airline passenger names against terrorist watch lists (BTN, Aug. 27)....

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