Most Americans willing to sacrifice some privacy to enhance safe air travel
April 13th, 2010 - 8:18 pm ICT by BNO NewsBLUE BELL, PENNSYLVANIA (BNO NEWS) — Ninety-three percent of Americans said they are willing to sacrifice some level of privacy to increase safety when traveling by air, according to research released on Tuesday and conducted in January and February by Unisys Corporation.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans (65%) said they are willing to cooperate with full electronic body scans at the airport, and more than half (57%) would be willing to submit to identity checks using biometric data such as iris scans or fingerprints.
Nearly three quarters of Americans (72%) said they are willing to provide personal data in advance of air travel to increase security.
The findings, part of the latest bi-annual Unisys Security Index, illustrate that recent events such as the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing may have made security a priority for air travelers.
A clear majority of citizens in nearly every country surveyed said they would be willing to forgo privacy to increase air travel security. For example, 90% of citizens in the United Kingdom and 70% of Australians said they would submit to electronic body scans.
The latest results of the Unisys Security Index also confirmed that national security and identity theft rank as America’s top concerns, with nearly two-thirds (65%) “extremely” or “very” concerned about U.S. national security and 64% seriously concerned about identity theft.
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