Essay On Airport Security

Security and privacy rights are debatable topic among people. For a long time, people were able keep a high level of privacy. But now days, this situation is going to change due to some incidents that happened in the past that changed the mindset of the government as well as people mindset about the security. And it is the moral duty of all persons to realize the modern situation and cooperate with government agencies to secure their country. Today, terrorism poses a legitimate threat to Western countries, as illustrated by the events of 9/11, threats from extremist groups such Islamic States and Al-Qaeda and attempted plots on Western countries. To terrorize the people, they try to plot their acts at high value targets such as crowded
In Nov 2012, thieves stole iPad minis trove valued about $1.5 million from JFK airport. From the same airport in 1978, a robbery of $5 million cash and jewelry of worth $900,000 was took place. If the government will get the information about people, they can trap various notorious people who smuggle and steal various elements in the country. For example, a biometric sensor or fingerprint or eye scanner can be installed on airport that can recognize everyone from people information database created by everyone’s identity and from various agencies and body scanner can scan people entering in country with illegal material can be trapped on the
Also, it is the responsibility of government to keep all data safe. But there are few incidents that show there are some holes in security that is threat for the privacy of the all passengers such as hacking of security system. It is a digital world and it is very easy for the professional hacker to get personal information of all passengers from the security system of aviation security servers. But it is fixable and various countries use special cells responsible for the security of their servers and stop hackers getting access of their systems. Apart from that, there is some incident based on the discrimination by religions and by countries on the name of the airport security. It is against the privacy right of individuals and embarrassing for both individual and hosting countries. After 9/11 lots of news came from the USA and some other countries where Muslim passengers were stopped at the airport even they are innocent and harassed on the name of the religion by calling terrorist. One another example of it was the removal of the turban of some Sikh passengers (a religious Headwear) in front of everyone at airport even there are body scanner installed which can find small needle in the human body. So, such type of incident should be stopped. There should some