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Coffee, Tea or Whole Body Scan?

Monday August 18, 2008
The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has been expanding its fleet of whole body scanning devices capable of "seeing" right through passengers' clothing to detect prohibited dangerous items. TSA assures that the whole body scanners, soon to be in service at at least 24 airports nationwide, will be operated in manner that ensures the privacy of passengers selected to "bare it all."

Passengers randomly selected for "secondary screening," will be allowed to choose between the electronic whole body scan, or a physical pat-down search by a TSA officer. Remember when the hardest choice you had to make at the airport was "Coffee, tea or milk?" [Read more...]

Also See: TSA Now Conducting Random Behavioral Screening

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