Utilizing these lists does not curtail terrorism but rather justifies discriminatory practices by the state. Profiling in airports also creates a sense of distrust between communities of color and law enforcement (Ramirez, Hoopes, and Quinlan 2011). Lyon argues that in a post-9/11 society, the reliance on technology for surveillance has not made surveillance less biased but produced a system of social sorting: “[Passengers] . . . are coded to categorize personal data such that people thus classified may be treated differently. People from suspect countries of origin or with suspect ethnicities can expect different treatment from others” (2007: 162).

XREF: Connects to broader literature on algorithmic bias and how technical 'neutrality' masks pre-existing social hierarchies.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 166