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Your Body Belongs To TSA Now
April Fool? If only. When the TSA promised that its full-body scanners would only be used for secondary screening, it must have had its fingers crossed: Joe Sharkey reports in the New York Times that all metal detectors will be replaced with the clothes-penetrating devices because of good results from airports like Tulsa's, where they were offered as an alternative to the classic detectors.
TSA acting CTO Robin Kane even told Sharkey the agency got positive feedback from passengers, probably the ones who were standing behind the scanners looking at naked people.
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We See London, We See France But Tulsa Sees Your Underpants
TSA's controversial full-body screeners have landed at the Tulsa International Airport with passengers already testing the pricey machines (each one costs $170,000) to largely positive reviews. From USA Today:
The 35-year reign of airport metal detectors began its slow descent this week in Tulsa, where for the first time some passengers are skipping metal detectors. People are instead being screened in a 9-foot-high portal with glass shields that rotate to produce vivid pictures of what is underneath passengers' clothing.
Yet the machines did not stir as much "privacy rights" concern as we would think.
