In 2010, privacy advocates spoke out against a program being considered and tested by the Transportation Security Administration that tracked travelers via Bluetooth connections on devices in order to estimate the time they waited in security lines.
According to new reports, testing continued until 2012 but was ultimately canned by TSA before it ever being publicly implemented.
Documents obtained by the Cox Media Group Washington Bureau found that TSA had tested in Indianapolis and Las Vegas airports a system that tracked passengers via the Bluetooth-enabled cellphones they were carrying as they made their way from the end of the line toward the front. The document stated that such a system detected “signals broadcast to the public by individual devices and calculating a wait time as the signal passes sensors positioned to cover the area in which passengers may wait in line.” It also noted that the information collected was encrypted and destroyed within two hours.
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