At the Airport - Scanner or Pat-Down? To the Editor: Many travelers share the concerns of Nathaniel Rich (“Showdown at the Airport Body Scanner,” Sunday Review, May 26).
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, pursued a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to establish that all air travelers have the right to opt out of airport body scanners. As a result of the lawsuit, the Transportation Security Administration is also required to accept public comments on the decision to make body scanners the primary screening technique in United States airports. The agency will accept comments until June 23. EPIC is urging the public to express its views on the airport screening program. MARC ROTENBERG President, Electronic Privacy Information Center Washington, May 27, 2013.
Lawmakers Move to Eject Nude Scanners From New York Airports. Pilots told to avoid new airport scanners, "demeaning" pat-downs. Just over a week ago, we learned that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was stepping up its efforts to get Americans in front of its new clothes-piercing "backscatter" and "millimeter wave" scanners at airports.
The devices have raised all sorts of concerns about privacy (they can see through clothes) and radiation, but those who don't go through them will now suffer an intimate pat-down of nut-busting proportions. And pilots have had enough. Dave Bates heads the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines pilots and claims to be the largest independent pilots' group in the world. Bates recently told his members that they should refuse the new scans, together know as "Advanced Imaging Technology" (AIT). And he thinks the new pat-downs are a disgusting breach of a pilot's "privacy and dignity.
" The scanning devices in question have been rolled out over the last few years, and TSA insists that they are both safe and private. Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs. Privacy group sues TSA over scanners Homeland Security chief meets with travel industry groupPilots and passengers are unhappy with security measuresSome groups urge people not to fly or to opt for pat-downs (CNN) -- A growing pilot and passenger revolt over full-body scans and what many consider intrusive pat-downs couldn't have come at a worse time for the nation's air travel system.
Thanksgiving, the busiest travel time of the year, is less than two weeks away. Grassroots groups are urging travelers to either not fly or to protest by opting out of the full-body scanners and undergo time-consuming pat-downs instead. Such concerns prompted a meeting Friday of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano with leaders of travel industry groups.
Airline Passenger Sues TSA. TSA Abuse. Jessae Ventura vs TSA. Judge blocks release of body scanner images. TSA and SM. House Committee Asks Professor to Censor Facebook Remarks - Digits. Members of Congress Exempt From TSA AIT Full Body Scanners. TSA: Despite objections, all passengers must be screened. Anger at invasive airport screenings NEW: The California man involved in a TSA dispute could face an $11,000 fineTSA says screening is mandatory for all airline passengersThe man argues new X-ray machines invade privacyA video of his dispute with screeners is popular with YouTube viewers iReporter Asa Thibodaux says you shouldn't fly if you don't want to be screened.
We want to hear what you think. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- In response to a video of a California man's dispute with airport security officials, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday it tries to be sensitive to individuals, but everyone getting on a flight must be screened. The video, in which software engineer John Tyner refuses an X-ray scan at the San Diego, California, airport, has sparked a debate over screening procedures. Tyner told CNN on Sunday that he was surprised to see so many people take an interest in his refusal and the dispute with airport screeners that followed it. CNN's Catherine E.
Compilation of all stories. ‘Strip-or-Grope’ vs. Risk Management. In a humbly-toned USA Today opinion piece yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asked for the public’s cooperation with airline security measures the Transportation Security Administration has recently implemented.
The TSA has come up with an invasive pairing: ”Advanced Imaging Technology,” also known as “strip-search machines” and, for those refusing, “enhanced” pat-downs which explore areas of the body typically reserved for one’s spouse or doctor. Anecdotal reports suggest that the machines are being used to ogle women, and we are seeing disturbing images and videos of children being handled by strangers online. The public is increasingly agitated by the TSA’s latest amendment to the air travel ordeal, and a “National Opt-Out Day” is slated for next Wednesday, the biggest travel day of the year.
Twice, Secretary Napolitano notes that these measures are “risk-based” or “driven by … risk.” Risk Management Likelihood x Consequence = Risk. Nude model or groping victim? Court to TSA: Hey, what about your nude scanners. I've been flying a lot lately and it's become harder to find security lines that don't have nude body scanners.
They seem to be proliferating like Zuckerbergs at Google . Worse, they become ever more spectacularly demeaning, as people take up a submissive pose -- like bending over at the proctologist's -- and hope it will be over quickly. One assumes that all the powers that were, be, and are were happy with these things. It appears not. For the U.S. As Wired reports it, the court tended towards the apoplectic because the TSA had failed, for whole year, to hold public hearings.
A year ago, in a case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center , the court explained politely that it would like Americans to hear the TSA's reasoning and to, well, answer back in public.
Scanner tested in Germany. 'Naked' scanners fooled by creased clothing. Airport incidents pat down. Scanned images saved retrieved. TSA PAT DOWN 3yo. National Opt-Out Day. TSA encounter at SAN. [These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport.
I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur. I had my phone recording audio and video of much of these events. It can be viewed below. Please spread this story as far and wide as possible. Opinion.
TSA Groping Out Of Control. Everything you need to know about the security takeover and why airport oppression is already being rolled out on the streets Paul Joseph Watson & Alex JonesPrison Planet.com Monday, November 8, 2010 TSA abuse in airports is completely out of control with more and more cases of security workers groping women, fondling children, abusing naked body scanners, and interrogating passengers emerging every week, and yet the government’s answer to the epidemic of oppression is to hand TSA thugs more power with which to harass American citizens. The story of Infowars employee Michelle, who along with her child was sexually assaulted by TSA staff after refusing to go through a naked body scanner, has gone viral on the Internet after it was picked up by the Drudge Report, a website leading the charge in the backlash against airport oppression at the hands of the TSA that has now led to the world’s largest pilot’s association boycotting the use of naked body scanners.
Twitter Permissions & Security. TSA employee arrested for assault aft. TSA to remove controversial X-ray scanners. Kids and body scanners. TSA demands testicular fondling as an alternative to naked scanners. Airport security check so invasive it will 'become a moral issue' By Mail Foreign Service Updated: 16:03 GMT, 29 October 2010.
World’s Pilots Reject Naked Body Scanners Over Radiation Danger, Privacy Breach. “The practice of airport security screening has spun out of control and does nothing to improve national security” Steve WatsonPrisonplanet.comMonday, Nov 8th, 2010 The largest independent union of airline pilots in the world is urging its members to boycott body imaging machines currently being rolled out in airports all over the globe, citing dangers of excessive exposure to harmful levels of radiation during the screening process.
The president of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 11,500 pilots, many of whom work for American Airlines, has urged members of the union to revolt against the devices. Captain Dave Bates voiced the union’s concerns in a letter published by The Atlantic late last week. TSA Changes Pat-Down Procedure at Airports.
<br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Next time you pass through security in some airports around the country, you may face a difficult dilemma: Would you rather have a revealing, full body scan or what some are calling an X-rated pat down?
Body scanners unveiled at JFK Airport; Homeland Security Sect. Janet Napolitano doesn't volunteer. Egan-Chin/News The first Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) scanner at JFK airport is shown by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (r.) Friday. Airline passengers might want to consider a trip to the gym before heading to the airport now that high-tech body scanners have been unveiled at Kennedy Airport. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism. Life under digits ? IPrivacy4IT ? Clarinette's blog. Update 20/03/2012 This could be titled ‘when reality catch up with science fiction’. How to beleive that your refrigeratoris telling on you to the CIA and your flat screen TV is watching you? Well, it’s all true, read by yourself. - ‘CIA: We’ll spy on you through your refrigerator‘
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images. For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded. " Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all.