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Good News — TSA Screeners Can't See You Naked Anymore

Chris Chaberski — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:31:20 +0000

The controversial full-body scanners that the Transportation Security Administration has been using in airports to detect illegal objects being hidden by passengers will be removed from all airports. After travelers complained (quite loudly), TSA set a deadline for the scanners’ maker, OSI Systems, to create software that would make the images of passengers less revealing. [...]

TSA Reveals List of Weird and Scary Items Confiscated This Year

Shauna Wright — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:51:28 +0000

We all gripe about having to take our shoes off when we go through airport security, but according to a list of items confiscated this year by the TSA, footwear may be the least of its concerns. Of the 375 million passengers that have gone through TSA checkpoints, some accidentally leave things in their purses [...]

New Airport Body Scanners Could Reveal More About You Than You Realize

Shauna Wright — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:09:15 +0000

If you think airport security screenings are already too invasive, you probably won’t like this.

Within the next couple of years, the Department of Homeland Security will begin using laser-based molecular scanners at airports and border crossings. And what they reveal could surprise you.

Airline Passengers Live Their Worst Nightmare, Thanks to a Single TSA Agent

Shauna Wright — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:23:23 +0000

Hundreds of travelers at New York’s JFK Airport who’d already gone through security screenings were forced to do the unthinkable — get in line and do it all over again. It happened Saturday when it was discovered that one of the TSA agents didn’t know his metal detector had been unplugged all morning.

You Won't Believe What the TSA Confiscated in 2011

Kathy Landin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:30:21 +0000

We haven’t heard anything from the TSA about how many actual terrorist plots it prevented in 2011. In fact, we have no real report on how much safer it was to fly around the country in 2011 because of the efforts of our favorite, invasive security agency. What we do have, though, is a list of the ridiculous things they have taken from Americans who dare to forget what they’ve been carrying in their carry-ons.

What's TSA's Newest Flight Hazard? A Handgun-Style Handbag

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:00:17 +0000

A teenager’s western-style purse emblazoned with a handgun emblem on the front caught the attention of the Transportation Security Administration. Vanessa Gibbs was detained at a Virginia airport because the handgun on her handbag was considered a “replica weapon.” TSA officials ordered the pregnant teenager to either check the weaponized bag or turn it over [...]