8 Ways Tech Will Transform Airport Security

Here's a guarantee: Come up with a problem involving systems, and technology innovators will seek to solve it. Make that problem the safety of passengers on airplanes, and the urgency those innovators bring to the table increases a hundredfold.

Using tech to augment how we watch for and catch terrorists and others who would do us harm before they board an aircraft is a process flush with options — and with challenges.

Since at least 2001, with the formation of the TSA and the implementation of new criteria, methods and instruments for identifying travel-related threats, a national discussion has emerged about how much security is enough, and how much is too much: What does it take to make air travel as safe as possible without compromising privacy and our rights? Read more...