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Balancing Aviation Security and the Right to Privacy

Author(s) Mahima Jose
Country India
Abstract Civil aviation is one of the most security-sensitive domains of contemporary governance. A single security lapse may result in mass casualties, panic, economic disruption, and lasting diplomatic consequences. For that reason, airports and airlines function within an unusually dense network of screening rules, identity checks, intelligence-sharing practices, and passenger-data systems. Yet the same measures that make aviation safer also interfere with privacy, bodily dignity, and informational autonomy. The core issue is therefore not whether aviation security is necessary, but how it should be structured in a constitutional democracy so that security does not become a standing justification for intrusive surveillance.
This paper argues that aviation security and privacy should not be treated as mutually exclusive values. Privacy does not disable the state from protecting civil aviation; rather, it requires the state to act through clear law, limited means, and accountable procedures. The paper focuses on three areas where the conflict is most visible: passenger-data systems such as Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record regimes, physical screening technologies such as body scanners, and biometric systems such as facial-recognition verification. It concludes that the most defensible model is one based on legality, necessity, proportionality, data minimization, transparency, and human oversight.
Keywords aviation security, privacy, PNR, biometrics, surveillance, proportionality
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-19
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