These Body Scan Images Are the Opposite of Titillating

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2010 We're told that the blur of white pixels in these 100 leaked body scan images represents people. What they're using at airports now is of much higher resolution. Still, none of these images, like those taken at airports, were ever supposed to make it to the outside world. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More Airline Merger Madness

Staff / Truthdig Sep 28, 2010 Another day, another big merger in the skies: On Monday, Southwest Airlines announced that it had scooped up rival AirTran Airways, the second such acquisition this month after United and Continental joined forces. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Airport X-Ray Scanners Hit the Road

G.W. Schulz / Truthdig Sep 9, 2010 While debate continues in the United States over whole-body imagers, manufacturers of the technology are opening deeper opportunities for themselves elsewhere that could make the controversial machines an even bigger part of everyday life. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

TSA Massages Its Technique

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2010 While it might sound more like a massage than an infringement on one's privacy, the ACLU has challenged the use of a new “enhanced patdown” technique being tested by TSA agents at Boston's Logan International Airport that involves a “palms-forward, slide-down” check of passengers' bodies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

European Flights to Resume — With Caution

Staff / Truthdig Apr 19, 2010 Many grounded travelers and some airline industry officials disagreed with the halting of air travel across much of Europe last weekend due to the ashy work of Iceland's now-infamous Eyjafjallajokull volcano, and now it's looking like some flights will be gearing up for takeoff on Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Icelandic Volcano Grounds Flights Across Europe

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2010 A volcano under the Eyjafjallajoekull (got that?) glacier in Iceland spewed a hefty cloud of ash into the air Thursday, turning airports across Europe into no-fly zones and leaving stranded travelers little hope of taking off until midday Friday or later. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Administration Approves Profiling at Airports

Staff / Truthdig Apr 2, 2010 The White House is set to announce a new screening regimen that will target passengers based on intelligence about suspected terrorists. Currently, everybody from a list of 14 countries gets special attention. The intel about terrorist suspects had better be more nuanced than dark-skinned or Muslim, or we may just have to go running to the ACLU. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Airports Expand Full-Body Screening

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2010 Igniting criticism by privacy advocates around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in the process of installing 450 full-body X-ray scanning machines in the country's airports. The machines show images of hidden objects, as well as passengers' bodies through their clothes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

El Baradei Returns to Egypt

Staff / Truthdig Feb 19, 2010 With an almost rock-star return, Mohamed El Baradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has come back home to Cairo, greeted by an estimated 500 supporters. The crowd was so large it prevented him from leaving the airport. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Security Precaution

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Amorous Couple Caused Chaos at Newark Airport

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2010 We're betting this scenario will wind up in: (a) a romantic comedy, and/or (b) a "ripped from the headlines" TV show at some point in the not-so-distant future. Last Sunday's temporary terminal shutdown at Newark Liberty International Airport didn't stem from an attempted terrorist attack or something similarly sinister. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Too Revealing

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