Body Scanners

PHOTOS: Are You An 'Enhanced', 'Normal' Or 'Known Traveler'?

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Checkpoint of the Future, Video, Tsa, TSA Security Checkpoint, Body Scanners, Global Pulse, John Pistole, Security Checkpoint, Airports, Airport Security, Security, Travel News

A mock-up "checkpoint of the future" could spare air travelers the hassle of TSA liquid checks, shoe removal and pat-downs, while speeding up security...

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Body Scanners Sensitive To Sweaty Armpits?

AOL Travel News | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Airport Body Scanners, Airport Security, Tsa, Body Scanners Images, Body Scanners, Body Scanners Tsa, Body Scanners Airports, Travel News

There's been quite the controversy over full-body scanners at American airports, and now Australians are getting a taste of the drama. At Sydney Airpo...

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House GOP Moves To Cut Off New Funding For TSA Body Scanners

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 07.12.2011

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans controlling the Transportation Security Administration's purse strings are moving to cut off new funding for thos...

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Thanksgiving Travelers Move Quickly Through Airports Despite Warnings

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ohare Airport, Body Scanners, Airport Travel, Full Body Scanners, Opt Out Day, Holiday Travel, Airports, Thanksgiving Travel, Holiday Travel Delays, Ohare, National Opt Out Day, Chicago Travelers, Chicago News

CHICAGO — The big Opt-Out looked like a big bust Wednesday as most of the Thanksgiving travelers selected for full-body scans and pat-down searc...

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The Erosion of Privacy in 21st Century America

Matt Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter King, Wikileaks, Patriot Act, Janet Napolitano, Cablegate, 9/11, Body Scanners, Hillary Clinton, Privacy, Tsa, Barack Obama, Politics News

Your average American has been subject to the same kind of scrutiny and invasion of privacy that the upper echelons of government are now experiencing from WikiLeaks.

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Pat-down Protesters Tangled With the TSA Online

G.W. Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeland Security, Terrorism, G.W. Schulz, Airports, Center for Investigative Reporting, Pat-Downs, Technology, Privacy, Airline Security, Body Scanners, TSA Security, Politics News

The TSA's website hosts a fellow nicknamed "Blogger Bob" who's responsible for debunking perceived myths about airport security. Sometimes Bob is right. Other times the TSA doesn't help itself by appearing to muddy the truth further.

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Cranks Resist Security at Airports -- and in the Senate

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa, Body Scanners, Homeland Security, North Korea Nuclear Program, Admiral Mike Mullen, Start Treaty, Iran, Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, New Start Treaty, Politics News

To many hard line Republicans, like the cranky travelers who balk and rage at scans and searches, security may no longer be the priority it once was. Not when there's a presidency to destroy.

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Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Body Scanners, Chertoff BAE, Chertoff Group, Chertoff Hayden, Shadow Homeland Security, Chertoff Firm, Chertoff Rapiscan, Michael Hayden, Tom Ridge, Politics News

After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whi...

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The Price Of Privacy

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, Faa, L-3 Communications, Lobbying, Rapiscan Systems, Air Security, Airplane Security, Michael Chertoff, Air Travel, Tsa, Body Scanners, Politics News

The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying ...

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Peel and Feel: Bad Policy Never Stops Getting Worse

Ben Tripp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Air Travel, Airlines, Airport-Searches, Tsa Regulations, Body Scanners, Full Body Scanners, Tsa Patdown, Tsa Screenings, TSA Security, Body Scanner Images, Travel News

The new TSA X-ray images aren't like ordinary medical X-rays. They expose every fold, crevice, and anatomical detail. It is easy to discern if the subject has had a mastectomy, for example, or is circumcised.

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Government Officials Say Full-Body Scanners At Airports Are Safe

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — They look a little like giant refrigerators and pack a radiation dose big enough to peer through clothing for bombs or weapons, yet to...

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PICTURES: 100 Body Scan Images LEAKED

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tsa, Body Scanners, Body Scans Leaked, Scanners, Body Scans, Body Scan Images, Body Scan Images Leaked, Technology News

Earlier this year, the U.S. Marshals Service admitted that--despite promises from federal agencies that such images could and would not be stored--som...

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Flying To Or From New York? Be Prepared To Be Seen

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Air travelers already give up their shoes and bottled water to pass through security checkpoints at New York City's three major airpo...

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Airport Security Increases Meet Spring Break

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, Spring Break, Tsa, Travel, Air Travel, Body Scanners, Airports, College News

ATLANTA — For those who haven't flown in a while, be prepared to be scanned, swabbed or thoroughly patted down. Maybe all three. Many spring br...

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O'Hare Body Scanners: Security System Debuts In Chicago, Amid Some Privacy Concerns

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ord, Body Scanners, O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Airport Security, Illinois, Full-Body Scanners, O'hare Body Scanners, Tsa, Video, Chicago News

The Transportation Security Administration gave travelers a sneak peek of the controversial full-body scanner technology Monday at O'Hare Airport. Fo...

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Airport Body Scanners Spread To Nine More US Airports

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — The Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced nine more U.S. airports that will receive body-scanning technology, as t...

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Muslim Woman Barred From Flight After Refusing Full Body Scan

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manchester, Muslim Women, United Kingdom, Airport Scanners, Body Scanners, Great Britain, Manchester Airport, Pakistan International Airlines, Airports, Airport Security, Airport Scanners See Through Clothing, Full-Body Scanners, World News

LONDON (AFP) - Two Muslim women were stopped from boarding a flight from Britain to Pakistan for refusing to go through new body scanners, citing reli...

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Jews, Muslims Worry Body Scanners Violate Religious Laws

pewforum.org | Omar Sacirbey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Islam, Jews, Tsa, Airport Body Scan, Dignity, Body Scanners, Judaism, Orthodox Jews, Airports, Airport Security, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, Airport Body Scanners, Religion, Screening, Fatwa, Jewish, Modesty, Religious Law, Full-Body Scan, Muslims, Full-Body Scanners, Body Scan, Transportation Security Administration, Muslim, Pope, Orthodox Judaism, Religion News

Full-body scanners are the latest clash between religious sensitivity and national security. Some religious groups say the scanners are forcing an unc...

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Dueling Docs: Are Airport Body Scanners Safe?

Janice Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: X-Rays, Public Debate, Cell Phone Technology, Terrorists, National Security, Body Scanners, Terrorism, Transportation Security Administration, Privacy, Flying, Radiation, Airpots, Healthy Living News

"Just flying in a plane exposes people to many times more radiation from than an X-ray scanner does," according to Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Mahadevappa Mahesh.

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Dutch To Use Full Body Scanners For US Flights

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ and DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, US Flights, Holland, Airport Scanners, Body Scanners, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Airport, World News

SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that cl...

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Full-Body Scans v. Nude Screenings: A Back-of-the-Envelope Calculation

David Colarusso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christmas Day Terror Attack, Naked, Full-Body Scanners, Body Scanners, Satire, Terrorism, Privacy, Airport Security, Backscatter, Millimeter-Wave, Technology News

I'm currently trapped in an airport terminal waiting for my delayed flight, and in the wake of the Christmas day terrorist attempt, I can't help but ponder the question of full-body scans.

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Nudists Endorse Controversial Full Body Scanners (PHOTO)

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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While privacy advocates have denounced the full body scanners for generating images so graphic they are tantamount to "virtual strip-searching," the A...

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Privacy Isn't the Price for Security

Mike German | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Northwest Airlines, Body-Scanners, Security, Airlines, Tsa, Delta Airlines, Privacy, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Profiling and electronically strip searching the innocent doesn't help find terrorists, it only wastes security resources.

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Reading the Pictures: Stripped Naked By Al-Qaeda (and I Haven't Even Been to the Airport)

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Airport Security, Body Scan, Detroit Bomber, Body Scanners, Media News

Abdulmutallab didn't even need to detonate his explosive to to literally scare the pants off the non-Muslim world with all these photos of near-naked airline passengers.

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WeCU: Mind-Reading Scanners Could Change Air Security

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane, bent on mass murder. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing ar...

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