Suspect Detection Systems Inc. (SDSS)

[ET2010]

http://academia.edu/740041/SPOT_the_Terrorist_Body_Affect_and_Security

"Other professionals of (in)security in international organizations and the corporate world propagate exemplars of behavioural profiling. The International Air Transport Associaton(IATA), an airline interest group, has used its global agenda-setting power to propose atechnological ‘tunnel’ of airport security that would assign passengers to one of threescreening methods based on their perceived level of risk
(IATA 2010, Yu 2010) and theInternational Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has been influential in shaping global biometrics norms in general. Corporate interests have also entered the fray and “[r]acialand behavioural profiling techniques have emerged from Israeli and US security firmsexporting their wares” (Adey 2010, pp. 122-123). Suspect Detection Systems Ltd. (SDS),for example, have actively marketed ‘deception detection’ solutions to both governmentsand human resources departments (SDS 2011) and there are countless stores on- and off-line selling software allowing people to self-administer behaviour recognition training – for a price, of course. Not only do such companies often rely on the use of nationalexemplars (Israel and South Africa, in SDS’s case) as proof of their product’s applicability, but the panacea of solutions for which such products are intended drawfrom employer fears about lies at interview as much as popular fears of terroristssneaking through the border. In many ways, this confirms Bigo’s (2006) observationsabout a fusion of different types of security professionals.Each field, according to Bourdieu, presupposes its own specific types of interests(Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992, p. 117), similar to the Foucauldian understanding of the‘regime of truth’ as a networked structure of specific rules and regulations that constrainsthe behaviour of the subjects within it. In the field of behavioural profiling at airports, agreat deal of discursive and practical work on the part of academic, corporate and stateinterests has gone into fashioning a particular regime of truth in which facial expressionsor bodily movements can be stable referents of safety or risk."