Originally Posted by
average_passenger
It sounds like there are a lot of false positives! Uhm, shouldn't they look into this and figure out a more accurate screening method? How many false negatives do they get?!!!
Regarding private screenings - that sucks if you are an 18-21 year old female college student who is flying alone for the holidays. Imagine if that was your daughter! So, what you're saying is that if I go to a bar on the wrong side of town at 2am by myself, I would still have less of a chance of being touched inappropriately than if I were at the airport? Where are my rights as a female passenger flying alone?
The average is about 1 in 1000, and many are not false positives. Most are brought about by the passenger not removing someting from their pockets, or leaving a belt on, or moving during the scan and blurring the image.
18 to 21 year old females will have female TSO's doing the screening, and can still request a witness of their choice to be in the private screening room with them.
As for your rights "as a female passenger flying alone", I'm not a lawyer, nor am I female. You will need to ask someone else. Preferrably a lawyer, the folks here dont have a very firm grasp of the laws involved.