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Why I Still Opt Out

Michael Morgenstern | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Read More: Politics, Millimeter Wave, Airport Security, Political, Martin Luther King, Backscatter, Civil Rights, Tsa, Politics News
Michael Morgenstern

The TSA inspires a culture of fear. The indignities we are made to suffer at airports are a manifestation of a government that does not trust its people, and believes that the way to security is to encourage us not to trust each other.

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Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough Is Enough

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Rapiscan, X-Ray, Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration, Whole-Body-Scanners, Millimeter-Wave, Backscatter X-Rays in Airports, X-Ray Scanners Radiation, X-Ray Radiation and Health, Airport Security, Airport Security and Radiation, Backscatter X-Rays and Radiation, Health News, X-Ray Scanners, Healthy Living News
John W. Whitehead

Remember those whole-body, X-ray scanners the government installed in airports across the country and kept insisting were so safe? It turns out that they're not so safe, after all.

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Car Feature Aims To End Fender-Benders

AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 09.20.2011 | Technology
Read More: Millimeter Wave, Toyota, Toyota Steering, Car Crash Tech, Pre Crash Toyota, Toyota Millimeter Wave, Technology News

SUSONO, Japan -- Toyota is developing a safety technology that takes control of the steering so the vehicle can veer away when it isn't able to stop b...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Full-Body Scan.

Aemilia Scott | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Air Travel, Tsa, Backscatter, Body Image, Tsa Pat Downs, Travel, Nudity, Full-Body Scanners, Comedy, Millimeter-Wave, Travel News
Aemilia Scott

In the media pile-on over the TSA's new scanning procedures, the loudest voice has been the one crying foul over personal exposure through imaging and...

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

David Colarusso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Christmas Day Terror Attack, Naked, Full-Body Scanners, Body Scanners, Satire, Terrorism, Privacy, Airport Security, Backscatter, Millimeter-Wave, Technology News
David Colarusso

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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