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Mobile app to fight US airport profiling
Sikhs simplify way to report discrimination after ethnic minorities complain of extra screening.
Last Modified: 28 Jul 2012 20:43

In the wake of the 11 September, 2001 attacks on the US, some ethnic minorities have been subjected to extra screening at airports in the country. 

To help solve the problem, a group of Sikhs living in the US have developed a mobile application that makes it much easier to file a complaint in the case of racial profiling by security personnel.

Barbara Benitez reports from Washington.

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