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Category Archives: full body scanners

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TSA Will Remove Some Nude Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 18, 2013December 9, 2016 2 Comments

Chalk this up as a small victory in the war on common sense. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed today that it will remove some airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers by June. These are the large...

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TSA Concedes Failure of Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 9, 2012December 9, 2016 4 Comments

TSA’s Iraqi Information Minister, Blogger Bob, addressed the new video “making its way around the interwebs” about why full body scanners actually make us less safe. His words were telling. Let’s go through them, one sentence at a time....

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How to Get Anything Past a TSA Full-Body Scanner

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 7, 2012 Leave a Comment

For years I have been preaching about the lack of critical thinking and common sense that characterized the Transportation Security Administration’s choice to roll out full-body scanners at airports nationwide. I have pointed out that the machines were never...

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The TSA Shows Their Humane Side

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 16, 2012 Leave a Comment

I am usually very critical of the Transportation Security Administration and will continue to be critical as I observe the out-of-control agency wasting tax dollars. But I am also a fair person, and will give them praise when praise...

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EU Bans Full Body Scanners While USA Embraces Them

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 18, 2011 3 Comments

The European Union banned a variant of full body scanners (used extensively in the U.S. by the Transportation Security Administration) this week at the airports of all 27 member states,  “[I]n order not to risk jeopardizing citizens’ health and...

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TSA SPOT Program Wastes Time and Money

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 18, 2011 4 Comments

The Transportation Security Administration is actively testing its new Israeli-style interrogation program at Boston’s Logan Airport. The new screening method is part of the TSA’s SPOT (Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique) initiative that began in 2001, encompasses the...

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Bribed TSA Officer Conspires with Drug Smuggler at LAX…9 Times!

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 18, 2011 Leave a Comment

I wish I could say I am surprised, but I am not: a Transportation Security Administration Officer at Los Angeles International Airport was busted on Sunday for aiding and abetting a drug smuggler sneak 15lbs of marijuana past security....

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Airport Security Screening of the Future

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 5, 2011 2 Comments

A little blurb on airport passengers screening in the Washington Post caught my eye today: AMSTERDAM — The airline industry has presented its vision for a security ‘checkpoint of the future,’ which would speed up safety checks by sorting...

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Obama’s Deficit Plan = Higher Airfare

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 20, 2011 Leave a Comment

Part of President Obama’s recently announced deficit reduction plan includes a provision that will double security fees on tickets, increasing the price of a round-trip ticket by up to $20. While I agree that airport security should be styled...

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TSA Plays Politics, Changes Children Screening Policy

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 18, 2011 2 Comments

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano recently announced that children will no longer be required to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints and also will not be subject to pat-down searches. Instead, their hands will be swabbed for...

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Germany Rejects Airport Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onSeptember 3, 2011 Leave a Comment

When you are evaluating the acquisition of new technology how do you determine whether it will be a good fit? Do you just buy it without testing it, as the U.S. did in the case of airport full body...

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Analysis: TSA Diffuses Full Body Scanner Privacy Concerns

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 24, 2011 Leave a Comment

While I am no fan of the TSA, I will give them credit when credit is due. The announcement this week that the TSA will introduce new software on full body scanners that generates an image of a human...

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D.C. Circuit Rejects Claim that TSA Full Body Scanners Violate Fourth Amendment

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 18, 2011 2 Comments

In probing the Transportation Security Administration’s Advanced Imaging Technology program last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit squarely rejected the contention that the TSA’s use of AIT violates the Fourth Amendment. Distinguishing unlawful...

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Exclusive: TSA Admits to Storing AIT Images

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 17, 2011November 14, 2023 5 Comments

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screener has admitted that the TSA stores images obtained from full body scanners. The 23-year old screener works at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport and posted the following in the course of an online...

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TSA Unveils Plan to Exempt Flight Crews from Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 11, 2011 1 Comment

Changes are coming to U.S airport security checkpoints: The Transportation Security Administration recently announced plans to begin testing an identity verification program to let airline crews bypass the controversial full-body scanners and extra-thorough pat-down searches at airports. The proposed program,...

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Texas Lawmakers Attempt to Ban TSA Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 8, 2011 7 Comments

A posse of Lone State lawmakers has a message for the TSA: Don’t mess with Texas. Republican State Representative David Simpson has introduced two bills targetting the TSA. Here are the highlights: HB 1938 …(b) An airport operator may...

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Stephen Colbert Shows Us How to Trick the TSA Full Body Scanners

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 18, 2010 Leave a Comment

Nation, we have a solution to the TSA’s full body scanners: pancakes. Stephen Colbert tells us that "pancakes will allow law-abiding citizens to hide their private parts from the hungry eyes of those TSA perverts." For your viewing pleasure:...

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