is the new “driving while black”. So say travellers who believe they are being targeted at airport security on the basis of their race or religion. Yet new analysis confirms warnings that such profiling is no better at weeding out risky individuals than random screening.
Bill Press of the University of Texas at Austin modelled situations in which members of a profiled group are, for example, 100 times as likely to be terrorists as typical travellers. You might think the best approach would to run extra security checks on them 100 times as often. In fact, this…
