Transportation Security Administration
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Transportation Security Administration
The Transportation Security Administration confirmed that it would offer a variety of enhanced or time-saving participant benefits at security checkpoints for people who enroll in the Registered Traveler program. The agency did not describe the benefits, but it is widely presumed that they will include eliminating some checkpoint requirements, like removing jackets and taking laptops out of their cases. The agency said that benefits will change from time to time in order to make it more difficult for terrorists to anticipate their security activities. To enroll in the program, travelers agree to a federal background check and pay an annual fee for an ID card encoded with electronic images of their fingerprints and irises.