RadSec. Survive a TSA Screening. From Wired How-To Wiki A man undergoes a pat-down during TSA security screening, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Photo by Ted S. Warren/AP Turn your nose to the air this holiday season, and among the pleasing smells of roasted poultry and freshly baked pies, you may detect a whiff of outrage.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has run afoul of security experts and the general public by introducing some radical changes to how airline passengers are screened -- just in time for the holiday travel peak. Central to the issue are the TSA's new advanced imaging devices that can see through your clothes and display a picture of your naked body -- and see any weapons or contraband you're hiding under your jeans. Refuse to walk through one and you'll receive an "enhanced pat-down," a policy that has also touched a nerve among travelers. This article is part of a wiki anyone can edit. Tips for travelers Tips for protesters Going commando under a kilt? Opt Out of the Airport Scanners for Health and Privacy - We Won't Fly .com. Stand Up Against TSA’s Invasive Security Procedures.
The Transportation Security Administration has adopted "enhanced" security procedures — presenting people with the horrible choice of either submitting to body scanners that show passengers unclothed or submit to what are called "groping" pat-down techniques which include touching both breasts and genitalia. As some have noted these processes appear to have little likelihood of increasing the safety of fliers.
Individuals appalled by these procedures have a right to submit formal complaints to the TSA. It is important the passengers and crew submit complaints to showcase the widespread resistance to these procedures. TSA maintains that they have seen no increase in complaints about the new security procedures. Online Forms and iPhone Apps You can submit a formal complaint against the TSA about the new body scanners and frisking techniques by filling out the form on their website. Survey on the Spot is a third party survey company that conducts feedback surveys for the TSA. Resources/Info re TSA X-ray/AIT Scanning & Enhanced Pat-Down. Airport Body Scanners - Home. Whole Body Imaging Technology and Body Scanners ("Backscatter" X-Ray and Millimeter Wave Screening)
Introduction EPIC has filed a lawsuit to suspend the deployment of body scanners at US airports, pending an independent review. Body scanners produce detailed, three-dimensional images of individuals. Security experts have described whole body scanners as the equivalent of "a physically invasive strip-search. " The Transportation Security Administration operates the body scanner devices at airports throughout the United States. On July 2, 2010, EPIC filed a petition for review and motion for an emergency stay, urging the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to suspend the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) full body scanner program.
EPIC said that the program is "unlawful, invasive, and ineffective. " Top News EPIC Settles FOIA Case, Obtains Body Scanner Radiation Fact Sheets: EPIC has received the documents that were the subject of EPIC's Freedom of Information Act appeal to the D.C. Background Backscatter X-Rays and Transportation Screening. DHS Tries To Hide Mobile Scanner Details. How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners. Racial Profiling at Boston Airport, Officials Say.
TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elderly woman in Florida. Adult diaper removed for TSA A 95-year-old woman was held up by TSA officers at a Florida airport, her daughter saysThe agents forced the cancer-stricken woman to take off her adult diaper, she addsThe TSA insists its officers "acted professionally and according to proper procedure"The woman's daughter says those procedures should be changed (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.
Reports of the incident took hold in social media, with scores of comments on the topic and reposts appearing hourly on Twitter Sunday afternoon. The TSA released a statement Sunday defending its agents' actions at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport. "If this is your procedure -- which I do understand -- I also feel that your procedure needs to be changed," she said. Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners. The machines, which are designed to reveal objects hidden under clothing, have the potential to close a significant security gap for the TSA because metal detectors can't find explosives or ceramic knives, which can be just as sharp as the box cutters that hijackers used on 9/11. They are also important for TSA's public relations battle over the alternative, the "enhanced pat-down," which has bred an epidemic of viral videos: A 6-year-old girl [3] is touched from head to toe. A former Miss USA [4] says she was violated.
A software programmer warns a screener, "If you touch my junk [5], I'm going to have you arrested. " After the underwear bomber tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009, the TSA ramped up deployment of full-body scanners and plans to have them at nearly every security line by 2014. There are two types of body scanners [6]. Millimeter wave machines emit a radio frequency similar to cellphones. Backscatters work like a fast-moving X-ray. New TSA screening policies ineffective, possibly counterproductive, IU expert tells Congress. Last modified: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2011 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Transportation Security Administration's adoption of whole-body imaging as part of airport screenings has proven ineffective and potentially counterproductive, an IU Maurer School of Law expert said in testimony before a House subcommittee. "Even if advanced imaging technologies (AITs) were living up to their technological potential, their potential is clearly limited," Professor Fred H.
Cate said on March 16 in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform -- Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations. "AITs do not detect explosives. They do not detect firearms. Cate, who also directs Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, explained that anomalies generate numerous false positives. But many anomalies cannot be cleared by TSA agents given the time and resources available to them. Why the TSA pat-downs and body scans are unconstitutional.