Name-based false positives trap innocent travelers in indefinite heightened security

Evidence

Hamza: The reason I was given was because they had suspected someone with a name very similar to mine of being a terrorist, but they wouldn’t give me any other information, they just told me to fill out a form. When you’re on that, the effect of being on that TSA list is that you always have to go through the heightened security at the airport, which sucks, especially if you travel the way I do, which is a lot for work. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 173

Categorization

• XREF: The false-positive mechanism — similarity of name, no information given, no recourse — is the core ‘how a citizen becomes a permanent suspect’ mechanism anchoring the reader’s map.
• QUESTION: The ‘fill out a form’ with no information given suggests a redress process designed to be opaque; worth chasing whether redress ever actually works.