Secondary Security Screening Selection or Secondary Security Screening Selectee, known by its acronym SSSS, is an airport security measure in the United States which selects passengers for additional inspection. The passengers may be known as Selectee, Automatic Selectee or the Selectee list. The list contains 14,000 names, as of December 2009.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has insisted no minors are listed on the No-fly list or the Selectee List but was proven wrong by a New Jersey family. It has also been cited by civil liberties group to be infringing on privacy rights and potential for racial and ethnic discrimination.
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