TSA Eliminates Right to Opt Out of Nude-o-scope Body Scanners
For now, you may be allowed to opt out if the supervisor decides to grant you that privilege. But you must petition as a proper supplicat--on your knees. And of course it will be easy to issue an updated policy directive next year that there will be no exceptions.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/23/tsa-electronic-body-scans-opt-out-policy TSA sharply curtails ability to opt out of electronic body screening at airports The Transportation Security Agency has ended a policy that allows any passenger to opt out of an electronic screening, under a new directive issued last week. In a report issued quietly on 18 December – days before one of the busiest travel periods of the year – the US travel security agency said some passengers will still be allowed to opt out of the full-body electronic screening and go through a physical search instead. |
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Originally Posted by sbm12
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Or on FT: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/check...os-policy.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/check...s-opt-out.html Or on my site: http://blog.wandr.me/2015/12/tsa-kills-opt-option/ http://blog.wandr.me/2015/12/clarifi...pt-out-policy/ :p |
How are they even allowed to do this when they are required to provide an alternate option?
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Originally Posted by gingersnaps
(Post 25913913)
Supposing that the mandatory AIT are SSSS, why would TSA make the change? Is a pat down not enough? If a pat down is not enough, what does that say about the pat down procedures very likely developed by TSA's Office of Training and Workforce Engagement?
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Originally Posted by gingersnaps
(Post 25913913)
Supposing that the mandatory AIT are SSSS, why would TSA make the change? Is a pat down not enough? If a pat down is not enough, what does that say about the pat down procedures very likely developed by TSA's Office of Training and Workforce Engagement?
Great message to send to the 'bad guys'. :rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by Himeno
(Post 25914132)
How are they even allowed to do this when they are required to provide an alternate option?
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Originally Posted by jww947
(Post 26017694)
I am not sure what the big deal is? Are people scared they will get radiation poisoning?
If terrorist get through security people are complaining about TSA, if they enact measures to stop terrorist people are complaining. However, a) this means that TSA has an obligation to be effective in screening people in wheelchairs, regardless of whether or not they're "faking it", and therefore they have no right to try to find out if that's the case or not, b) AIT is not more effective than patdown anyway (it's less effective, but faster when it doesn't false positive), c) the actual holes in security are not some pax claiming a bogus busted shoulder, but rather the people going around because they work there. (See e.g. the various drug smuggling rings that have gotten busted.) |
Originally Posted by chollie
(Post 26017647)
More importantly, if TSA doesn't believe the grope is as effective as the NoS, they are effectively claiming that they can never screen wheelchair-bound pax to the highest standards.
Great message to send to the 'bad guys'. :rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by jww947
(Post 26017694)
I am not sure what the big deal is? Are people scared they will get radiation poisoning? In this era of heightened security, I feel it is better to be safe than sorry. If terrorist get through security people are complaining about TSA, if they enact measures to stop terrorist people are complaining. They can't win so they are probably just saying Fuc@#% it we are doing everyone.
Passenger screening is a production to make people "feel" safe. |
Originally Posted by chollie
(Post 26017647)
More importantly, if TSA doesn't believe the grope is as effective as the NoS, they are effectively claiming that they can never screen wheelchair-bound pax to the highest standards.
Great message to send to the 'bad guys'. :rolleyes: |
There are inefficiencies is every program to include TSA screening. TSA/Airlines should get raw with people and say. If you don't like the program don't travel, find another means of transportation, this is what we have decided and this is what we are going to do. On the flip side if they do enact this attitude then they must be efficient and foolproof as possible. We will see what the future holds for airline travel.
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Originally Posted by jww947
(Post 26019922)
TSA/Airlines should get raw with people and say. If you don't like the program don't travel, find another means of transportation, this is what we have decided and this is what we are going to do.
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Originally Posted by jww947
(Post 26017694)
In this era of heightened security, I feel it is better to be safe than sorry.
Body scanners do not work, do not do what the government claims and were not designed for that use. They have no place in airports. Most of what the TSA does has nothing to do with security, does not provide security and is simply not needed in any way whatsoever. The methods used by TSA (and many other governments who have fallen into line behind US demands) reduce security. They spend so much time looking for things that are not threats that they miss things that are. The set up of checkpoints, and the delays that things such as body scanners create, mean that any "terrorist" has no need to get into the secure side of an airport, there is a far better target - the checkpoint itself. |
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