Our only concerns with peeping TSA folk are not at the full-body screening machines, they are also with secret personnel whose job it is to simply sit and watch passengers. These detection officers have the power to command that passengers go through additional screening just because they don’t like the way the travelers are acting.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the discussions and tests which were then ongoing in the UK, which many hoped would lead to the complete elimination of the liquid restrictions in airline carry-on luggage there. That day may come sooner than you think.
The Transportation Security Administration’s “behavior detection” program made headlines this week as screeners caught a man trying to check luggage containing pipe bomb-making materials in Orlando.