Wired – “Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat… In Europe, at least four technology companies—Idemia, SITA, Travizory, and WCC—offer governments around the world software that uses algorithms on traveler data to profile passengers. These companies claim their software can detect terrorists, human traffickers, drug dealers, serious criminals, missing persons and increasingly, people migrating without papers. Products from these companies aim to combine multiple data streams about a traveler—such as your flight booking data with your visa application—to allow some people to pass quickly and effortlessly through border control. Those flagged by a machine as risky would be sorted into separate lines and subjected to a variety of measures ranging from questioning to physical searches and even possible surveillance by intelligence agencies. It would be difficult, if not impossible, in many countries to find out why you were flagged or what happens afterwards with your data…”