I am filing a complaint with the TSA. They need to know what this feels like. They need to make some changes. There should be another way to do this, another way to handle those of us who don't conform to gender stereotypes, so that we don't feel less than human.
At the airport, you have to make a spot decision. Do you want to glide through the scanners like everyone else, or do you want to make a scene? I was traveling with my mother. There was no doubt which choice would be hers.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying ...
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.
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...
The Transportation Security Administration gave travelers a sneak peek of the controversial full-body scanner technology Monday at O'Hare Airport.
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Full-body scanners are the latest clash between religious sensitivity and national security. Some religious groups say the scanners are forcing an unc...
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...
"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.
While privacy advocates have denounced the full body scanners for generating images so graphic they are tantamount to "virtual strip-searching," the A...
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.