The courts have already ruled in favor of the ACLU on requiring a process to get false positives off the no-fly list: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-fly

The courts have already ruled in favor of the ACLU on requiring a process to get false positives off the no-fly list: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-fly-list-violates-rights-federal-ruling-20140624-story.html http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-fly-list-violates-rig... Also, it's not clear that this list would be any smaller if there were less government surveillance. Presumably, the less the government knows about you the more paranoid they would be about letting you on an airplane, given you share a name with a known terrorist. And, frankly, if the single most egregious collateral damage to result from a spy apparatus as large as the NSA/CIA/FBI is that some people have trouble getting on airplanes, that's really not that bad.