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If you’re unlucky enough to have a medical emergency on a plane, your flight attendants are trained to help. Same thing goes for other public places, like restaurants and schools. But an internal memo circulated to employees at one airport suggests the TSA would rather you take your heart attack elsewhere.
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Ned Levi examines TSA’s new random hand swabbing program to detect explosive residue on airplane passengers and finds that it’s unlikely to work, despite claims of security experts, mostly because they’ve focused on the equipment, and not the overall security program of which they are a part.
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This is a simple reprint of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) press release with a short commentary up front. It seems that TSA is now moving down a better track than installing untested and circumventable whole-body scanners. This effort searches for explosives and the method is non-invasive, protecting dignity. That’s as long as TSA doesn’t decide to have us jam out hands in our pants like their counterparts in Canada have known to require.
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British Airways will test using city waste for jet fuel, security scanner firms up marketing, biofuel power grows for air industry
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Carnival Cruise Lines, one of the leading cruise lines both in terms of selling drinks on board and in trying to keep passengers from bringing their own on board, is at it again.
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India warns of threat against Air India, US warns of using same security system, miracle on Hudson plane for sale
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With so many conflicting reports about “full body scanners,” what they can and can’t do, privacy issues, and their safety, Ned Levi has developed a comprehensive analysis about them. Ned looks at these devices, concentrating on their efficacy, privacy, safety, and bang for the taxpayers buck.
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Already this week the TSA was caught in a lie about what it likes to call whole body imaging (virtual strip search) machines, when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents showing that, despite TSA claims that “this state-of-the-art technology cannot store, print, transmit or save the image,” the TSA actually requires all of these capabilities — image storage, printing, and transmission — as part of the contract specifications for the body scanners.
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Since the last time I wrote about the Transportation Security Administration, the agency charged with protecting air travel has encountered some unexpected turbulence.
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If your holiday vacation time is flexible, people say that January is the best time to go on your winter break.
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