“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.” - Miguel de Cervantes When unexpected security situations arise with travelers abroad, there is a marked difference in response between trained individuals and those who are untrained. When facing security or safety challenges, the trained traveler or expatriate responds in accordance with what they have been taught and learned; they have protocols and pre-briefed responses as threats present themselves.
A former security officer at a U.S. consulate in China pleaded guilty to attempting to pass secrets about the building's security systems to a Chinese spy agency.
Use of facial recognition technology on popular social networking site Facebook, especially in photo tagging, has raised privacy concerns in Germany, where users must be allowed to give their explicit consent for such potentially privacy-encroaching applications.
The DHS is adding to screening procedures at 14 overseas airports with U.S.-bound flights in a project to keep terrorists from ever boarding the plane.
